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2009 Longlist

The Dinner Club

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

A subversive concoction of greed, lust, and violence set in genteel suburbia.
When Evert dies in his burning villa, everything points to suicide. The other members of the “dinner club”, a group of five women who meet regularly and whose husbands do business together, rally around to support Babette, his grieving widow. But events soon spiral out of control. Within weeks a member of the club falls from the balcony of a hotel and dies. Something is poisoning their smug world of flashy 4x4s, coffee mornings and wine-filled evenings and bringing death in its wake. This is a high-spirited, sexy and ingeniously plotted tale about people desperate to hang on to the trappings of success–at any cost.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Saskia
Noort

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Paul
Vincent

NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

The dinner club is not only a tale of crime but also a survey of the role social status plays in a small town.

Thriller, this novel is a very successful novel in our library. Many of our members enjoy reading this novel.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
The Netherlands
Original Language
Dutch
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Translator
Paul Vincent

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