Matt Beynon Rees
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http://www.goodreads.com/mattrees
born
July 08, 1967
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male
place of birth
Newport, Wales, The United Kingdom
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Mystery & Thrillers
influences
Chandler, Greene, Hammett
member since
September 2008
about this author
I’m an award-winning crime novelist (aka Matt Rees) who lives in Jerusalem. As a journalist, I covered the Middle East for over a decade as Time magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief and Middle East correspondent for The Scotsman and Newsweek. I published a nonfiction account of Israeli and Palestinian society called Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East in 2004 (Free Press). My first crime novel, The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK title The Bethlehem Murders), won the prestigious Crime Writers Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger in 2008, and has also been nominated for the Barry First Novel Award, the Macavity First Mystery Award, and the Quill Best Mystery Award. The New York Times called it “an astonishing fir...more
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The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Beynon Rees (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.65 — 126 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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A Grave in Gaza by Matt Beynon Rees (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.80 — 55 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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The Samaritan's Secret by Matt Beynon Rees (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.87 — 23 ratings — published 2009 |
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Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East by Matt Beynon Rees (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 2004 |
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Maestro de Belen, El by Matt Beynon Rees (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2008 |
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A Grave in Gaza by Matt Beynon Rees (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2008 |
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Der Verräter von Bethlehem: Omar Jussufs erster Fall by Matt Beynon Rees (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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The Samaritan's Secret (Mystery & Thrillers)
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updated 03/06/2009 12:48AM
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The third in my series of Palestinian crime novels. Omar Yussef is in Nablus for a wedding. Tracking the killer of a young member of the Samaritans, he stumbles upon the fatal secrets of his oldest friend.
A Grave in Gaza (UK: The Saladin Murders) (Mystery & Thrillers)
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This is the opening of my second Palestinian crime novel, which was published in February 2008.
The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK: The Bethlehem Murders) (Mystery & Thrillers)
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This is the opening couple of pages of my first novel, which was published in 2007. It's the start of a series of novels about Palestinian schoolteacher and sleuth Omar Yussef. It won the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Dagger in 2008.
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Matt said "yes" to attending the event: Palestinian crime novel book launch in Jerusalem.
date: June 26, 2009 06:00PM location: The Pasha Room, American Colony Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel description: The Bookshop at the American Colony Hotel is proud to present an evening with Matt Rees Who will be reading and speaking about his latest novel The Samaritan's Secret Matt Rees is an award-winning crime novelist who lives in Jerusalem. Major authors have compared him to Graham Greene and John Le Carre. The French magazine L’Express called him “the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine.” As a journalist, Rees covered the Middle East for over a decad...more | |||
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"I'm always up for tales that educate you about a different culture without lecturing you about it. And in this day and age, an understanding of how the folk in the Middle East live their lives is quite important: they are not all "towelheads"...more " | |||
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"I read this book with a lot of mixed feelings to begin with. The author had set the mystery in the middle of Palestine and I was wondering just how he would portray it. I knew that the author was a middle eastern correspondent and it really didn't ...more " | |||
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Matt
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"Lime-green paint on the domes of the neighborhood mosques punctuated the khaki limestone in the Nabl"
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Thanks for adding me to your friends list Matt! If you get to reading my novel Paper Boats (available on amazon.com), I would love to have your views!
Matt:from my sister who first introduced me to your work, when I sent her a link to the star.com article (she's a politician in Maine):
>>I have read all three of his books, in fact just finished one. He is a terrific writer and really knows the ins and outs of the politics of the area. Sharon
cheers,
jessica
Thanks, Jessica. Sometimes I'm a little disturbed that events here seem to follow storylines I made up for my novels, with new and rather dreadful twists. I do have a third novel in the Omar Yussef series coming out on February 1 called "The Samaritan's Secret." It's set in Nablus ... but I hope that doesn't mean trouble is headed their way, Gaza-style. best, Matt
I thought of you and the book I've read of yours with the situation in Gaza. It's awful.I'm going to look for another of your books.
happy new year--
Jessica
Thanks for the add, Matt! Your books look excellent. Which would be the best one to start with? I love mysteries, and have lived and worked in Israel for a year, in 1999-2000. Hope you have a wonderful day!
Love the quote. Ring Lardner, alas, the great reporter writer. Thanks for the add
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Hello Matt,
How are you? Thank you for being my friend. Good fortune on your books.
Please visit these groups when you have a chance: “Happy & Brainy Group” and “To the Glory of Man”.
Have fun. Best regards.
Hi Matt,
This is weird. I'm a crime writer who used to be a crime reporter and BRIEFLY did some news reporting in the Middle East! I'm currently working on an Iranian based thriller but if Chandler and Hammett are your thing you should check out my novel, HOLLYWWOD BOWL. E-mail me for details.
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Thanks for the friend request. :) I was wondering if it was due to a particular review I had left here, or whether you knew of me from elsewhere online.
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