BOOK REVIEWS

Murder Mystery Leaving Word Hayden Horner

Author: Steven Boykey Sidley ISBN: 978 1 928420 52 1

Steven Boykey Sidley, the internationally published author of works such as Entanglement and

Stepping Out, has signed up with MFBooks Joburg, an imprint of Jacana Media.

Sidley joins the ranks of MFBooks’ bestselling stable with his highly anticipated upcoming literary mystery novel Leaving Word, which is crafted with the author’s unmistakable writing, dialogue, humour and plot-weaving.

His latest offering follows the mysterious death of Buddy Rappaport, the CEO of a major publishing company, and sets off a probing, occasionally comic, occasionally tragic and intellectually wide-ranging search for the reason and motive for his death.

Melinda Ferguson, the owner of MFBooks, said: “I regard Steven as South African literary royalty and am honoured that he has chosen me to publish this brilliant novel.”

Murder mystery Nothing Ventured Hayden Horner

Author: Jeffrey Archer Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509851287

When Jeffrey Archer writes, you know it’s going to be a bestseller.

With short stories such as the Clifton Chronicles, Kane and

Abel and Cat O’ Nine Tales, that have topped bestseller lists around the world, it’s no surprise that his latest work has also made the list.

The book follows William Warwick, who has always wanted to be a detective and decides, much to his family’s dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will instead join London’s Metropolitan Police.

But this is not a detective story. This is a story about a detective!