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Gordon Smart

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Australia

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Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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Jo Nesbø, Denise Mina, Stieg Larsson, Ian Rankin, Philip Kerr, Robert ...more

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December 2018

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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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	The DI Khan Trilogy: A Rendezvous with Death; The Deadly Shadows; Death of an Angel 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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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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Crook Manifesto (The Harlem Trilogy, #2)

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Tennyson Bouguereau finds himself a free man after the Civil War but still an object of racism in the Deep South. He journeys to Nashville to join a choir which takes him to England and provides him with friendship. Beautifully written, this novel ha ...more
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Gordon Smart rated a book it was amazing Clown Town (Slough House, #9) by Mick Herron	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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Gordon Smart rated a book liked it The Hotel Avocado (Gary Thorn, #2) by Bob Mortimer	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
Some entertaining bits but the humour at the start wasn’t sustained and I felt it was too long and the pace was slow. Too much unnecessary detail. I liked the dog Lassoo best! Viva tomatoes!
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Gordon Smart liked Kate Morgan's review of I’ll Be Watching You: "Deborah Masson’s I’ll Be Watching You was a different read to what I normally pick up, and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would! Our unreliable narrator, Casey Carter gives off Netflix’s ‘You’ Joe Goldburg’s vibes, psychotic, obsessively controll" Read more of this review »
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Somehow I was hooked by the story even though the plot is bonkers. I liked the Aberdeen setting as it reminded me of my time there. There’s plenty of preposterous things about the plot but it still manages to be a page-turner.
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