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  <name><![CDATA[Richard Kunzmann]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Richard Kunzmann published his first police procedural in the UK at the tender age of 26, and &lt;em&gt;Bloody Harvests&lt;/em&gt; was immediately short-listed for the Crime Writers Association’s lucrative J.C.W. Creasy Award for Best New Novel, in 2002. Publication of &lt;em&gt;Bloody Harvests&lt;/em&gt; and his second thriller, &lt;em&gt;Salamander Cotton&lt;/em&gt; , quickly followed in all English language territories.

The &lt;strong&gt;Washington Post&lt;/strong&gt; has described his writing as ‘recalling &lt;em&gt;No Country for Old Men&lt;/em&gt; and other Cormac McCarthy novels that focus a literary sensibility on bloodcurdling events’, while the &lt;strong&gt;Sunday Times&lt;/strong&gt; hailed him as ‘an impressive new talent in the thriller genre’. The &lt;strong&gt;Cape Times&lt;/strong&gt; says of his latest book, &lt;em&gt; Dead-End Road &lt;/em&gt; , ‘It stands head and shoulders among the many crime novels we are confronted with’.

Richard’s police procedurals explore a contemporary South Africa and a society that has been ravaged by the past policies of the apartheid state and the rapid changes over the last decade brought on by democracy. Rampant crime and an under-resourced police force provide the backdrop for the critically praised Harry Mason and Jacob Tshabalala series. 

His fourth book, &lt;em&gt;The Price of a Country &lt;/em&gt;, will be the first in a new series of psychological thrillers, starring the profiler Amina Reynolds, and is due for publication in February 2010.
]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[James Lee Burke, Raymond Chandler, Stephen King, Michael Marshal Smith]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Windhoek, Namibia</hometown>  <born_at>11/22/1976</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Bloody Harvests]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Salamander Cotton]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dead-End Road]]></title>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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