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Rennie Airth

Born

in South Africa

January 01, 1935

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. The first novel in his John Madden trilogy, River of Darkness, was published in 1999 to huge critical acclaim, was shortlisted for four crime fiction awards and won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France. The sensational sequel was The Blood-Dimmed Tide, and The Dead of Winter forms the final part of the trilogy.

Currently resides in Italy.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 21,904 ratings · 2,061 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	River of Darkness (John Madden, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 9,003 ratings — published 1999 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blood-Dimmed Tide (John Madden, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 4,779 ratings — published 2004 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead of Winter (John Madden, #3) 3.85 avg rating — 3,753 ratings — published 2009 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reckoning (John Madden, #4) 4.08 avg rating — 1,807 ratings — published 2014 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death of Kings (John Madden, #5) 3.79 avg rating — 1,217 ratings — published 2017 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decent Inn of Death (John Madden, #6) 4.08 avg rating — 1,044 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Kill 3.36 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snatch! 3.84 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1969 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once a Spy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	COLD KILL a gripping crime thriller full of twists really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned W. B. Yeats ‘The Second Coming”
― Rennie Airth, The Blood-Dimmed Tide

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“Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be cured. Dr. Franz Weiss”
― Rennie Airth, The Blood-Dimmed Tide

tags: 1930s, psychoanalysis

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“His specific brief was to cultivate contacts in the Nazi party. It’s something we’ve been slow to get on to. Like others, we’ve tended to dismiss them as rabble. Now it looks as though they may form part of the next government. Or, God forbid, end up running it.”
― Rennie Airth, The Blood-Dimmed Tide

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October/November 2014 Group Read. Voting time is October 9th through the 14th.

Six Years/Harlan Coben

26 votes 11.9%

A Walk Among the Tombstones/Lawrence Block

21 votes 9.6%

The Innocent/David Baldacci

21 votes 9.6%

Storm Front/Jim Butcher

15 votes 6.8%

The Kill Artist/Daniel Silva

14 votes 6.4%

Cliff Diver/Carmen Amato

11 votes 5.0%

Think of a Number/John Verdon

11 votes 5.0%

Roseanna/Maj Sjöwall

10 votes 4.6%

Dead Simple/Peter James

10 votes 4.6%

King Solomon's Carpet/Barbara Vine

10 votes 4.6%

The Killing/David Hewson

10 votes 4.6%

River of Darkness/Rennie Airth

9 votes 4.1%

Edge of Dark Water/Joe R. Lansdale

7 votes 3.2%

Bloodline/Mark Billingham

7 votes 3.2%

The Burnt House/Faye Kellerman

7 votes 3.2%

Night And Silence/Aline Templeton

6 votes 2.7%

Sleep Tight/Rachel Abbott

6 votes 2.7%

Fatal Act/Leigh Russell

4 votes 1.8%

Natural Causes/James Oswald

4 votes 1.8%

Faces of the Gone/Brad Parks

3 votes 1.4%

The Sword of God/Mark Dawson

2 votes 0.9%

Laidlaw/William McIlvanney

2 votes 0.9%

The Last Good Man/A.J. Kazinski

2 votes 0.9%

Mystery in White/J. Jefferson Farjeon

1 vote 0.5%

Eternity/Tamara Thorne

0 votes 0.0%

219 total votes

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