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2) Icarus
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A week before Christmas, a young photographer discovers a plastic-wrapped corpse amidst the sand dunes north of Cape Town. It doesn't take long for the police to identify the body as that of Ernst Richter--the tech whiz founder of Alibi, an Internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their affairs. Assigned to the case is lead detective Benny Griessel--but unfortunately, his two years of sobriety have...
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When two South African police officers are murdered by a culprit who threatens to kill an officer every day until a certain cold case is solved, Inspector Benny Griessel struggles to find answers about the death of an ambitious lawyer in spite of no apparent motive or leads.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When children's author Angelica meets South African vintner Jack at a dinner party, they hit it off immediately but Angelica doesn't want to risk her marriage on a fling. But when Angelica goes to Cape Town on a book tour, her affair with Jack begins in earnest.
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After a teenage American tourist has her throat slit in Cape Town, detective Benny Griessel must find her friend, Rachel Anderson, before she meets the same fate; and when he's also put on the case of a murdered music executive, he realizes he must solve both crimes for Rachel to survive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When the bleached and nude corpse of a woman found outside Cape Town turns out to be Alicia Lewis, an expert in Dutch Masters paintings, Captain Benny Griessel and his partner uncover a connecton to a rare painting that disappeared in 1654.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
At the start of this stellar thriller from South African author Smith (Mixed Blood), Cape Town meth heads Godwynn MacIntosh and Disco De Lilly hijack wheeler-dealer Joe Palmer's Mercedes. When the two black men shoot Joe in the leg, the reaction of Joe's gold-digging American wife, a former model, is to say the least, unexpected. While honest cop Ernie Maggott tracks the carjackers, and sociopathic killer Piper pursues Disco, once his jailhouse wife,...
8) Cobra
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, a skilled young thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. Then one day he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seraphin Turihamwe is a young man whose life is characterised by movement. After leaving Rwanda under duress and never feeling at rest in Namibia, which he believes is slow and boring, he finds himself fighting to fit in in Cape Town. So much about the city is designed to push people like him out. Through his interactions with a few reluctant mentors, loyal friends and the women he carries on relationships with, he explores and performs different...
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