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"AN INDIE NEXT PICK A LIBRARYREADS PICK “A dark and heady dream of a book” (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Nearly a century later, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for eclectic misfits, seeking solely to disappear into the mansion’s...
23) 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...
24) Where's Jamela?
Author
Series
Jamela books volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Mama gets a new job and a new house, everyone is excited about moving except Jamela who likes her old house just fine.
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,...
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Series
Sigma Force novels volume 3
Language
English
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A fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany--and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain. Meanwhile, madness ravages a monastery in Nepal, as Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism and torture. Lisa Cummings, investigating the atrocity, is suddenly a target of a brutal assassin...
29) Pale horses
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Series
Jade de Jong investigations volume 4
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
cp2012.
Language
English
32) Mosaic
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Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Explores the darker sides of world politics and the human psyche in a tale that stretches from the quiet country lanes of England to the brutal torture chambers of South Africa.
35) Blood safari
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Emma Le Roux hires a personal security expert when her believed-dead brother is named as a suspect in the murders of five people, a situation that exposes her to political tensions, corruption, and life-threatening violence.
36) July's people
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c1981
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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For years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family—liberal whites—are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July—the shifts in character and relationships—gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings...
37) Icarus
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Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 5
Language
English
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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.
39) The last hunt
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,...
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