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Whitcoulls Recommends: Not Quite Dead Yet and Red Star Down

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Sun, 27 Jul 2025, 12:49pm

Whitcoulls Recommends: Not Quite Dead Yet and Red Star Down

Author
九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Sun, 27 Jul 2025, 12:49pm

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson. This has a hugely implausible premise. Jet Mason is attacked in her kitchen one evening, after which her doctors tell her she鈥檒l be dead by an aneurysm in seven days, so she decides to spend the week hunting down her murderer. It took me a little while to get into the rhythm - the black humour, sarcasm, farce, twisted family relationships, and roving suspicion of everyone she knows who might be the killer. But once I did, I adored it.

Red Star Down by D.B.John. From the author of Star of the North, this is a thriller at the nexus between North Korea, Russia and Washington which takes in actual events in real life - such as the poisoning of one of North Korea鈥檚 Kim family at Kuala Lumpur airport, or a real estate mogul becoming President of the United States - all woven into a brilliantly compelling story about three disparate individuals who find themselves right at the heart of all these goings on. I simply couldn鈥檛 put it down. 

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