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Benny Griessel novels volume 2
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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.
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A headspinning thriller from crime writer Deon Meyer: the story of an ex-cop who has seven days to solve a seemingly unsolvable crime — the answer to which lies in his own dark past.
When Johannes Jacobus Smit, an antiques dealer, is found burned with a blowtorch and killed execution-style with a single shot to the back of the head, former cop Zatopek "Zed" van Heerden is called in to investigate the unusual circumstances of the murder....
When Johannes Jacobus Smit, an antiques dealer, is found burned with a blowtorch and killed execution-style with a single shot to the back of the head, former cop Zatopek "Zed" van Heerden is called in to investigate the unusual circumstances of the murder....
3) Seven days
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Benny Griessel novels volume 3
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In order to stop a shooting spree against cops, homicide detective Bennie Griessel is given the thankless task of solving a cold case that has no leads.
4) Cobra
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"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...
5) Icarus
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Benny Griessel novels volume 5
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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...
6) The reactive
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The story of Lindanathi, a young HIV+ man grappling with the death of his brother, for which he feels unduly responsible. He and his friends-Cecelia and Ruan-work low-paying jobs and sell anti-retroviral drugs (during the period in South Africa before ARVs became broadly distributed). In between, they huff glue, drift through parties, and traverse the streets of Cape Town where they observe the grave material disparities of their country. -- amazon.com...
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An amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town's violent badlands- from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard Price.
A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead.
On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway,...
8) Kobra
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A famous mathematician is kidnapped and his bodyguards killed. It's a professional job, as the spent shell casings are engraved with the head of a cobra. Meanwhile, a skilled young thief picks the pocket of someone who was delivering valuable and dangerous information. Before the day is over, five more people are killed by Cobra, the thief's sister is kidnapped, and he is on the run. Captain Benny Griessel and the Hawks attempt to identify the missing...
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Reluctant bank robber Jack Burn is on the run after a heist in the United States that left $3 million missing and one cop dead. Hiding out in Cape Town, South Africa, he is desperate to build a new life for his pregnant wife and young son. But on a tranquil evening in their new suburban neighborhood they are the victims of a random gangland assault that changes everything.
10) Ikar
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„Seria o Bennym Griesselu południowoafrykańskiego autora, Deona Meyera, to pierwszorzędne współczesne kryminały, a piąta część – Ikar – jest wprost fenomenalna. Mistrzowsko skonstruowana opowieść o seksie, kłamstwach i oszustwach". Guardian„Meyer to znakomity pisarz – bez wątpienia zasłużył na międzynarodową sławę, którą zdobył". Washington Post„Rewelacja. Bogactwo postaci, zwłaszcza złożona osobowość
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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.
13) Nineveh: a novel
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Katya Grubbs is Cape Town's only ethical pest removal specialist. She expertly wrangles every manner of wild critter, creature or beast with the help of her unwitting nephew, Toby. When she is hired to remove the exotic beetles that have overrun Nineveh, a new luxury housing development on the coast, Katya finds that bugs aren't the only unwelcome creatures hiding in the new (but inhabited) apartments. As she investigates further, it becomes clear...
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"Baxter Zevcenko's life is pretty sweet. He's making a name for himself as the kingpin of his smut-peddling high-school syndicate, the other gangs are staying out of his business, and he's dating the girl of his dreams, Esme. But when Esme gets kidnapped, things start to get seriously weird, and the only man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter that goes by the name of Jackson 'Jackie' Ronin. Plunged into the...
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In Khayelitsha, South Africa, Neo's passion for music leads her to her first love--Tale, the female lead singer of a local band--and an internship at the local radio station, and both experiences teach Neo about the risks and rewards of using her own voice to empower others.
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A novel about love, memory, and motherhood. Nadine Morgan travels the world as a journalist, running from anything that might tie her down. Since an assignment in Cape Town ended in tragedy and regret, Nadine has not returned to South Africa, or opened her heart--until she hears the story of Jason Irving, an American student beaten to death by angry youths at the height of the apartheid era. Years later, his mother is told that Jason's killers have...
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Para todos los que la conocen, Angelica Lariviere vive en un mundo perfecto. Tiene un matrimonio ideal, dos hijos pequenos, y un encantador circulo de amistades. Pero Angelica es, tambien, una mujer que ha olvidado su propia belleza y su capacidad de seduccion. Y su marido, un banquero frances, se muestra cada vez mas distante y distraido. Hasta que un encuentro casual con, Jack, un seductor sudafricano hace tambalear todas sus convicciones. Por primera...
19) Divine justice
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"Ruthless underworld criminal Rocco Robano's group of right wing fanatics, inspired by crazed evangelist Heinz Dieter, are responsible for mayhem and murder in the city of Cape Town. As they prepare to leave for their new home, Aurora, a protected community where the White Brothers, the Core, will live out their days in solidarity, they run amok in the city already cursed by xenophobia. Employed to find a set of missing uncut diamonds, ex-addict Rae...
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