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Rennie Airth Biography & Facts
Rennie Airth (born 1935) is a South African novelist who currently resides in Italy. Airth has also worked as foreign correspondent for the Reuters news service. Novels His works include Snatch! (1969), Once A Spy (1981), and a series of murder mysteries set in England between 1921 and 1949 featuring Detective Inspector John Madden of Scotland Yard (later retired). The first of these, River of Darkness (1999), won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for best international crime novel in 2000 and was nominated for Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity awards in the States. Airth found inspiration for that tale in a scrapbook about his uncle, a soldier killed in World War I. A sequel, The Blood-Dimmed Tide, was published in 2003, and a third book, The Dead of Winter, in 2009. Although Airth initially intended to write a trilogy about Madden, in 2014 he produced a fourth entry in the series, The Reckoning, and followed that with The Death of Kings (2017). Books Snatch (1969) Once A Spy (1981) Detective Inspector John Madden River of Darkness (1999) The Blood-Dimmed Tide (2004) The Dead of Winter (2009) The Reckoning (2014) The Death of Kings (2017) The Decent Inn of Death (2020)References External links The story behind The Reckoning - Essay by Rennie Airth on Upcoming4.me . Discover the Rennie Airth popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Rennie Airth books.
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The Dead of Winter
Rennie Airth"[Rennie Airth's] meticulously detailed procedural mysteries are beautifully written . . . well worth reading, and rereading."Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Rennie ...
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The Decent Inn of Death
Rennie Airth"[Airth's] meticulously detailed procedural mysteries are beautifully written . . . well worth reading, and rereading." Marilyn Stasio, The New York TimesSnowed in at a country man...
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The Blood-Dimmed Tide
Rennie Airth"Unnerving... from [a] richly textured background, Airth draws a vivid cast of fullbodied characters and a plot that satisfies."The New York Times Book ReviewWith the publication o...
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The Death of Kings
Rennie Airth"Rennie Airth is one of the best detective writers around. And The Death of Kings is his best book yet."Philip Kerr, New York Times bestselling author of The Ot...
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River of Darkness
Rennie Airth"It's the tactics and the terrain, the morale and the characters that make the difference between an average thriller and one as good as this."The New York Times Book ReviewUpon it...
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The Reckoning
Rennie AirthInspector John Maddenwho debuted in River of Darknessreturns in a gripping post–World War II murder mysteryOn a quiet afternoon in 1947, retired bank manager Oswald Gibson is shot ...