Sorted on book title (not in series order)

South Africa

A Beautiful Place to Die

When Captain Willem Pretorius, an Afrikaner police officer, is brutually murdered in the tiny backwater of Jacob's Rest, Detective Emmanuel Cooper is sent to investigate.

The local Afrikaners and the dead man's prominent family view Cooper, an 'English', South African, with...Read more

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Birds of Prey

It Is 1667 And The Mighty Naval War Between The Dutch And The English Still Rages. Sir Francis Courteney And His Son Hal, In Their Fighting Caravel, Are On Patrol Off Southern Africa, Lying In Wait For A Galleon Of The Dutch East India Company Returning From The Orient Laden With Spices,...Read more

Blood Rose

The gruesome murder of a homeless teenage boy suggests a methodical serial killer is at work in Walvis Bay, a depressed port, isolated in the vast sweep of the Namib Desert. It is a corrupt, claustrophobic place with a shifting population of people who came here only because they had to and...Read more

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Broken Monsters

Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide. But she’s never seen anything like this.

He is a broken man. The ambitions which once drove him are dead. Now he has new dreams – of flesh and bone made disturbingly, beautifully real....Read more

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Daddy's Girl

Friday evening. A deserted street below Table Mountain. A six-year-old ballerina waits alone for her mother to fetch her. Then an unmarked car approaches, and she is gone. With no trace of where, or why she's been abducted, suspicion falls on her divorced father, Captain Riedwaan. The boss...Read more

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Dead-End Road

Detective Harry Mason has rejoined the South African Police Service after a two-year leave of absence, and moved over to the specialised Serious and Violent Crimes unit, headed by the tough and fiery veteran commander Superintendent Carl ‘Blackie’ Swarts. Soon afterwards, Harry is assigned...Read more

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Devil's Peak

DEVIL’S PEAK begins with a prostitute telling her story to a clergyman. On her lap is a shoe box. What’s in the box?  

Inspector Benny Giessel has just been thrown out of the house by his wife. She has given him an ultimatum.  Choose either the booze or his family. He has six...Read more

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Benny Griessel - 1
Thobela Mpayipheli - 2

Divide the Night

“From the place where Cissy stood in the shadow of the used ­car dealer's sign, watching, she could see the door dearly. She had passed it coming down the road and it had been open then. Through the narrow opening she had been able to see the stack of biscuit boxes that did not seem to have...Read more

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Elephant Song

Daniel Armstrong, a world-famous TV naturalist, and anthropologist Kelly Kinnear forge a passionate alliance, and begin the fight against the forces of greed, evil, and corruption that are attacking a land they would both give their lives to save. Combining breathtaking realism and...Read more

The First Rule of Survival

Seven years ago, in Cape Town, South Africa, three schoolboys were abducted in broad daylight on consecutive days. They were never seen again.

Now, a new case for the unpredictable Senior Superintendent Vaughn DeVries casts a light on the original enquiry; for him, a personal...Read more

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The Golden Lion

In this sweeping adventure full of danger, action, and intrigue, the master who has been the model for bestselling authors such as Clive Cussler and Bernard Cornwell returns to his longest-running series, taking fans back to the very beginnings of the Courtney family saga

The son...Read more

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Heart Of The Hunter

When Johnny K is kidnapped and held to ransom, his daughter turns to the only man she knows can help her - his old friend - Tiny. The kidnappers want a disk from her safe that contains extremely sensitive data, and she has seventy-two hours in which to deliver, or her father will die. But...Read more

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Hungry as the Sea

Robbed of his wife and ousted from his huge shipping empire, Nick Berg is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his opportunity. When his arch-rival`s luxury liner is trapped in the tempestuous Antarctic, Nick stakes all to pit his powerful salvage tug, the Warlock, in a...Read more

Let The Dead Lie

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 1953 

Forced to resign from his position of Detective Sergeant and re-classified as 'mixed race' after an incident involving a young black woman, Emmanuel Cooper winds up powerless and alone in the tough coastal city of Durban, mixing...Read more

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Like Clockwork

When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town's Seapoint promenade, police profiler Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer.  As more bodies are discovered, Clare is forced to revisit memories of the horrific rape of her twin sister and the gang ties that...Read more

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A Lonely Place to Die

A prominent politician’s son dies after eating poisonous mushrooms and an obviously mad black servant is convicted. But prison psychiatrist Yudel Gordon refuses to accept the official case – with good reasonIn a dangerous move to prove the innocence of the terrified man he travels to a...Read more

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Men of Men

'Zouga never saw the command, probably the toe of her boot on the far side of Shooting Star's heaving chest; he had certainly not expected a show horse to have learned the low tricks of a polo pony. Shooting Star's huge sweat-streaked shoulder crashed into Tom, taking him in the...Read more

Mixed Blood

An American fugitive hides out in Cape Town—one of the world’s most beautiful and violent cities—in this riveting debut thriller that asks: Can you ever outrun your past?

Reluctant bank robber Jack Burn is on the run after a heist in the United States that left $...Read more

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Random Violence

In Johannesburg prosperous whites live in gated communities; when they exit their cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim killed, much less shot twice, like Annette Botha. Piet Botha, the husband of the wealthy woman, is the primary suspect in his wife's...Read more

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Salamander Cotton

A wealthy ex-farmer has been found beaten and burned to death at his home in suburban Johannesburg. Why does his estranged wife not seem particularly surprised by this cold-blooded murder, and insist that the killer will be found in the Northern Cape? That is where the victim's plantations...Read more

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Scimitar

Agents Ross and Lyle of the Defense Intelligence Agency are given the task of kidnapping a defecting Soviet scientist, despite opposition from the CIA and the KGB, in the midst of key SALT talks on the banning of the neutron bombRead more