A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award 2010They killed her best friend. Now they are chasing Rachel Anderson through the streets of Cape Town. The young tourist doesn't dare trust anyone - except her father, back home in America. When he puts pressure on the politicians, they know that to protect their country's image, they must find Rachel's hiding pl...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickMilla has finally escaped her abusive husband, only to find herself at the heart of an anti-terrorist operation.Lemmer has agreed to protect a pair of smuggled rhinos on a thousand-kilometre journey - his strangest job yet will also be his most dangerous.And former policeman

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickAn antiques dealer is burned with a blowtorch and executed with a single shot to the back of the head. The only clues at the scene are a scrap of paper and an unusual choice of gun.Ex-cop Zatopek 'Zed' van Heerden has just seven days to solve the case - an almost impossible task made even harder when he discovers that, u...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickThe big man known as 'Tiny' has a past littered with violence and death. An assassin's past that he hopes never to face again.But when his best friend is kidnapped, Tiny suddenly finds himself on the back of a stolen motorbike, speeding away from his child and the woman he loves.Tiny has only 72 hours in which to...

'The undisputed champion of South African crime' - Wilbur SmithOne last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing persons report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, deeply disturbing turn.On...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickThe Woman in the Blue Cloak is a brilliant novella which will thrill and entertain fans of Deon Meyer's much-loved detective Benny Griessel.Benny Griessel is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. That means he needs to buy an engagement ring - and that means he needs a loan.So B...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickThe former freedom fighter known as 'Tiny' has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life. But then his beloved son is taken away from him. In that moment, he unleashes himself upon a corrupt South Africa. His victims are those guilty of crimes against children.He goes by the name of Artemis.Benny Griessel, a ...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickONE COP. ONE KILLER. TWO CAPTIVES OF THE PAST.Mat Joubert, once a rising star of the South African police force, had it all. Then his wife was murdered, and his hopes died with her. Alcoholic, depressed and overweight, he is a shadow of his former self.Then a new killer appears on the streets of Cape Town, murder...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick***Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards' murder is the snake engraved on the shell casings of the bullets that killed t...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickLEMMER is a professional bodyguard. Silent and invisible, he never gets involved.EMMA LE ROUX believed her brother died twenty years ago, until she sees him on the news as the prime suspect in the brutal killing of four poachers.As Lemmer and Emma join forces in pursuit of the truth, it soon becomes clear that so...

'Reminiscent of THE STAND and THE PASSAGE. Great stuff' STEPHEN KINGA stunning standalone thriller from the leading crime writer in South Africa, author of the best-selling Benny Griessel series.I want to tell you about my Father's murder.I want to tell you who killed him and why.This is the story of my life.And the story of your life and your world too, as you will see.

Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards' murder is the snake engraved on the shell casings of the bullets that killed them.Investigating the massacre, Benny Griessel and his team find themselves being drawn into an international conspiracy with shocking implications. It seems it is not just the terrori...