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Gordon Smart

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Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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Gordon was born in Brisbane, Australia and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied English at Aberdeen University and taught English in secondary schools for over twenty years in Glasgow, Perth (Australia) and Clydebank before working as an adviser in education. He lives in the west end of Glasgow with his family. His interests include reading, music, politics and films. The locations in his writing will be familiar to Glaswegians. His debut novel, A Rendezvous with Death was published in August 2017. The sequel, The Deadly Shadows was published in November 2018. The third book in the series, Death of an Angel, was published in June 2020.

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	A Rendezvous with Death (Di Shazia Khan Series, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — 4 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 Deadly Shadows (Di Shazia Khan Series, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 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
	Death of an Angel (Di Shazia Khan Series, #3) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 4 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
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Just published my fourth book, Deception! Very pleased to have managed this despite having a lot of issues to deal with including serious family illness. Hopefully it will be well received and I'll get some positive feedback!

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On Eden Street (Kings Lake Investigation, #2)

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Gordon Smart and 109 other people liked Jeffrey Keeten's review of The Silent Death (Gereon Rath, #2): "”Then there was only a glistening light that enveloped her completely. No, more than that: she herself was light, for a fraction of a second she was part of a luminosity never before experienced. Never before had she seen so clearly, and yet in the s" Read more of this review »
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Cartoonish characters and action not up to the standard of his Thursday Murder Club books. Tries to hard to be funny and confusing at times.
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Gordon Smart and 1 other person liked Brad's review of Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome's Descent into Dictatorship: "Robert Harris returns to Ancient Rome with Agrippa. Agrippa was a commoner but found himself in the orbit of Octavius, Caesar's nephew. When Caesar is assassinated, Octavius takes over and now Agrippa is part of the highest levels of Roman government" Read more of this review »
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Gordon Smart and 2 other people liked Dr. Alan Albarran's review of Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome's Descent into Dictatorship: "Agrippa is the latest historical fiction novel from Robert Harris, well known for his many writings of ancient times such as Pompeii, the Cicero trilogy, and more recently Concave, which looked at the topic of papal succession. Agrippa presents a fict" Read more of this review »
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Gordon Smart liked Beth's review of Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome's Descent into Dictatorship: "It’s always such a treat to spend time reading a Robert Harris novel. Agrippa was just as exciting and engaging. Robert Harris took a deep dive into researching Agrippa and was able to build on the stories, documents and critical thinking when connec" Read more of this review »
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Gordon Smart rated a book it was amazing Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome's Descent into Dictatorship by Robert Harris (Goodreads Author)	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
Thoroughly enjoyed this as much as Harris’s Cicero books. There’s quite a lot of battle descriptions but the political intrigue is fascinating. Agrippa is an interesting character who reminded me of Hilary Mantel’s depiction of Thomas Cromwell: both ...more
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I have been an admirer of Barbara Kingsolver’s books ever since reading The Lacuna which included a fair amount of political thought. This one does too and clearly draws from her own personal background. She obviously has a great passion for music, i ...more
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Gordon Smart rated a book really liked it The Information by Martin Amis	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
Amis clearly had a lot of fun with this book, lampooning the world of publishing and writers. Richard is a failure as a writer of unpublished pretentious, modernist literature while his friend Gwyn has enjoyed great success with his popular low-brow ...more
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High smith has the knack of enmeshing you in the mind of psychopaths which is quite a talent. The main character, Vic, is a weird guy, of course, with his pet snails, but she makes him a sufficiently sympathetic character for most of the book that we ...more
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