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Sherlock Holmes set the template for flawed brilliance in fictional detectives. Juan Gomez-Jurado takes up the model with panache in Antonia Scott, the hyperintelligent recluse at the centre of thethrillers. In the first novel, Antonia paired with disgraced gay cop Jon Gutierrez to solve a gruesome murder. Here, she becomes involved in gangland assassination and international conspiracy.
forms part of a diasporic literature from Georgian refugees who escaped the conflict that erupted across the region in the aftermath of Soviet collapse. We follow Saba, a twentysomething returning to Tbilisi as wild animals escape from a flooded zoo. Saba intends to find his father and brother – both of them lost in their native land – and the trail of clues leads him on a mission that assumes a Kafka-like absurdity.
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