“Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters.”—Michael Connelly“Deon Meyer’s name on the cover is a guarantee of crime writing at its best.”—Tess GerritsenIn a corrupt South Africa, the criminals are as likely to be in government—or even in the police—as on the streets.Two decorated detectives must put their careers on the line to find the link between three seemingly-unrelated homicides in the thriller...

Rhino smugglers, international espionage, and a missing person investigation collide in this "powerhouse read" from the acclaimed South African author ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Lemmer's first rule is "Don't get involved." A highly skilled bodyguard with a violent, criminal past, he has settled into a quiet life in Loxton, South Africa. But when a wealthy farmer asks him to help save a pair of rare black rhinos by smuggling them out of Zimbabwe, ...

A former assassin in post-apartheid South Africa is drawn back into his former profession in this "rip-roaring adventure" ( The Washington Post).Six-foot five-inch Thobela "Tiny" Mpayipheli was once a feared freedom fighter, trained by the Stasi and KGB. Now, he's a family man working in a garage in post-apartheid South Africa. But when the daughter of one of Tiny's former associates comes to him with a desperate plea, he finds himself returning to his vio...

A death in South Africa may be tied to a centuries-old painting: "Is it O.K. to call a murder mystery 'lovely'? That's the word that comes to mind."―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewEarly on a May morning in the depth of South Africa's winter, a woman's naked body, washed in bleach, is discovered on a stone wall beside a highway some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is re...

Disappearances ensnare two South African detectives in a web of corruption in this stunning thriller by the Barry Award–winning author of The Last Hunt.Assigned to investigate the disappearance of a young university student and brilliant computer programmer detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido hit dead ends. But the trail—including the death of a fellow police officer—leads to a series of gun heists and the alarming absence of certain weapons from t...

From the international bestseller: an Afrikaner boy and his father navigate post-Apocalyptic South Africa—"reminiscent of The Stand and The Passage" (Stephen King).Nico Storm and his father, Willem, drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in the world, as far as they know, to have survived a devastating virus that has swept over the planet. In this new reality, Nico realizes that his superb mark...

A cold case reaches from Cape Town's shadowy past to bucolic Bordeaux, France, in this thriller by the Barry Award-winning author of Thirteen Hours.When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel's desk, he and his partner Vaughn Cupido, fellow member of the Hawks elite police unit in South Africa, reluctantly set to work reviewing the evidence. Did ex-cop Johnson Johnson simply disappear on the world's most luxurious train line—or was he murdered...

South African detective Benny Griessel has one day to solve two murders in the award winning, #1 bestselling thriller—"This book is great!" (Michael Connelly).Winner of the Barry Award for Best ThrillerAs morning dawns in Cape Town, Det. Capt. Benny Griessel finds himself facing a difficult day. A South African music executive has been shot dead. An American teenager's body has been found on the street, her throat cut. And her friend Rachel...

A riveting thriller from the acclaimed "King of South African crime" and the author of Blood Safari: "Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters" (Michael Connelly).Deon Meyer is a world-class writer whose page-turning thrillers probe the social and racial complexities of his native country. In Cobra, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed at a guesthouse in the beautiful wine country outside Cape Town. It's cle...

New horizons beckon around each bend when popular crime writer Deon Meyer and photographer Adriaan Oosthuizen take on the country's most beautiful off-road routes. They share some of the challenges they faced and the interesting characters they met as they went in search of adventure and spectacular scenery. Their favourite routes cover nearly the entire country and are aimed at both experienced and novice riders. The route descriptions read like travel stories, with each one offering some...

This series featuring South African detective Benny Griessel "is one of the high points of contemporary crime fiction" and " Icarus is his best yet" ( The Guardian).When a plastic-wrapped corpse is found amidst the sand dunes north of Cape Town, it doesn't take long for the police to identify the body as Ernst Richter—the tech whiz behind MyAlibi, an Internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their ...

Detective Griessel must solve a cold case to stop a shooter in this thriller from the acclaimed South African author.Two police officers have been shot, and the Cape Town homicide department has received emails from the shooter alleging the cover-up of an unsolved murder. If the cold case isn't reopened immediately, the shooter's carnage will continue.Now Det. Capt. Benny Griessel is out to solve the crime in question: the murder of an ambitious lawyer stab...