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    Banks grows on you

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 17/08/2018

    » It's a relief to read a crime thriller that doesn't bill itself as a psychological mystery. Frankly I'm not an armchair psychologist, much less psychiatrist. I much prefer simple -- what you see is what you get -- people to complex -- you don't know the real me.

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    The cook did it

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/10/2015

    » Men perform more major crimes than women, but women are catching up. Calling females the weaker sex is an outmoded term. In novels and films, the butler didn't do it, but the cook did. Motives are much the same: lust, greed revenge, ambition or self-defence.

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    The Liberatores

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/09/2013

    » The difference between a history book and a historical novel isn't the amount of research put into them, but the alacrity of the novelist in moving events around, adding and subtracting characters, compressing and extending the actual time an event took place, changing locations to fit the new story.

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    Guilty husbands

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 10/06/2013

    » Prolific author James Patterson turns out a minimum of two novels a year, either on his own or with someone from his stable of co-authors. His speciality is crime fiction, and his literary creations include several sleuths _ police detectives and private eyes. Popular characters are repeated. For those that don't catch on, it's a one-off.

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    A plausible solution

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 30/07/2012

    » While what the vast majority of people know about Egypt are its pyramids and mummies, there are Egyptologists _ not all scholars _ who find it, particularly its ancient history, fascinating. Indeed, what is called the ancient world.

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