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Margaret von Klemperer Reviews Divine Justice by Joanne Hichens

Divine JusticeVerdict: stick

While local crime writing is something to be celebrated, I wonder if I’m the only reader who finds the gritty under­belly of Cape Town beginning to pall.

The weather is unremittingly awful, the baddies are irredeemably horrible, the private eyes have problems, whether it is drink (often), messy love lives (always) or physical disabilities (here a missing leg). It’s all getting to be a bit much. I mean, I like Cape Town.

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