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Apostle Lodge

Apostle Lodge
  • Author(s): Paul Mendelson
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Col Vaughn de Vries Book 4 From the author of the acclaimed The First Rule of Survival, praised by Lee Child as ‘excellent and uncompromising’, comes Paul Mendelson’s explosive latest thriller. Apostle Lodge looks out over the ocean, an...

Cobra

Cobra
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards’ murder is...

The Tyranny of Trust

The Tyranny of Trust
  • Author(s): Neil Gevisser
  • Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

In Cape Town, South Africa in 1972, Aaron meets Angela in a bar. He has no way of knowing that she has sought him out because he is a White man about to move into District Six – an...

7 Days

7 Days
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

I’ll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet. Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot by a sniper and recovering alcoholic Benny Griessel is ordered...

A Sealed Fate

A Sealed Fate
  • Author(s): Lisa Gordon
  • Location(s): Cape Town, Dubai
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2006 and present

To escape the pain of failed relationships and careers, both Valda and Larissa take themselves to Dubai seeking not only success, but a reason and purpose in life. Valda does indeed find success and to her astonishment love, but...

A Backward Blessing

A Backward Blessing
  • Author(s): Libby Young
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Struggling with its past, Cape Town is a city of shifting allegiances. A place where children go missing and remain gone. Law and order is an interesting concept in the Mother City but not a helpful one. Living on...

Agents of the State

Agents of the State
  • Author(s): Mike Nicol
  • Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), Berlin, Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

BERLIN. Agent Vicki Kahn is on her first foreign mission for the South African government, on the trail of an international child-trafficker. A complication she doesn’t need is that the President’s son is somewhere in the mix. When Vicki...

Blood Orange

Blood Orange
  • Author(s): Troy Blacklaws
  • Location(s): Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/1980s

Gecko’s childhood is one of sheltered, almost magical innocence on a farm in Natal. He spends his days taking barefoot expeditions with his dogs and his nights listening to Springbok Radio, unaware of the cruel force in his life...

Blood Rose

Blood Rose
  • Author(s): Margie Orford
  • Location(s): Cape Town, Namibia, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

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...

Conquest (12)

Conquest (12)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar removed the spectre of invasion and England is now free to seek conquests and colonies in the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Kydd joins an expedition to take Dutch-held Cape Town, a...

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