{"id":17080,"date":"2023-09-21T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/?p=17080"},"modified":"2023-09-20T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T17:12:21","slug":"a-trio-of-thrillers-for-the-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/blog\/2023\/09\/21\/a-trio-of-thrillers-for-the-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A trio of thrillers for the long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1247976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1247976\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1247976\" src=\"https:\/\/caxtondigital.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2023\/09\/cult.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"355\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1247976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cult by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They thought it was a simple kidnapping. They were wrong. Camilla Lackberg (writer of brilliant contemporary psychological thrillers) and Henrik Fexeus (prize winning mentalist, and author of <em>The Art of Reading Minds<\/em>) have joined up to produce this heart-stopping thriller, which kicks off with a five year boy going missing from playschool, taken, according to the other children, by a woman. Add in more missing children and a secretive cult and you\u2019ve a killer of a novel that you won\u2019t put down. Translated from Swedish, <strong>CULT<\/strong> is the second book in the Mina Dabiri and Vincent Walder series &#8211; following on from <em>Trapped. 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It\u2019s all high adrenalin and exciting action. <em>Hodder &amp; Stoughton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These, and more book club reads, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exclusivebooks.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exclusivebooks.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They thought it was a simple kidnapping. They were wrong. 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