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1) The promise
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Single father Rowan Quinn moves to a tight-knit coastal community in South Africa to give his son the family he never had and meets a former heiress who makes it her personal mission to induct him into the town's circle of single dads to give him the support he needs.
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Series
Language
English
Description
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex—and dangerous. The search for the truth behind the killing eventually uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander...
Author
Series
Detective Emmanuel Cooper mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Emily Bestler books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Five days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper sits at his desk at the Johannesburg major crimes squad, ready for his holiday in Mozambique. A call comes in: a respectable white couple has been assaulted and left for dead in their bedroom. The couple's teenage daughter identifies the attacker as Aaron Shabalala-- the youngest son of Zulu Detective Constable Samuel Shabalala--Cooper's best friend and a man to whom he owes his life....
6) 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...
7) Icarus
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 5
Language
English
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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
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 6
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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 of the disappearance-and possible murder-of ex-cop Johnson Johnson on the world's most luxurious train line. Two fellow travelers might have the answers Griessel and Cupido need-but they too seem to have disappeared into thin air, and the few...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred. Until the Soweto Uprising,...
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.
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Language
English
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"From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing...
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