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  • 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 Death in the Medina

A Death in the Medina
  • Author(s): James von Leyden
  • Location(s): Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Death stalks the medina of Marrakech . . . Marrakech, August. It is the start of Ramadan, the hottest in memory. Among the few foreigners left in the sweltering city are a riad owner, her French boyfriend and an...

A Different Sun

A Different Sun
  • Author(s): Elaine Neil Orr
  • Location(s): Nigeria, West Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s and Modern

When Emma Davis reads the words of Isaiah 6:8 in her room at a Georgia women’s college, she understands her true calling: to become a missionary. It is a leap of faith that sweeps her away to Africa in...

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...

Bundu

Bundu
  • Author(s): Chris Barnard
  • Location(s): Mozambique, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In a place near Mozambique where no one knows the boundary, drought is changing everything. Tens then hundreds of people seek refuge in a forgotten outpost where a clinic is run by lonely souls of uncertain training, nuns staunchly...

The Double Comfort Safari Club (11)

The Double Comfort Safari Club (11)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland:...

Vanishing Tales from Ancient Trails

Vanishing Tales from Ancient Trails
  • Author(s): James Dorsey
  • Location(s): Greece, South East Asia, West Africa
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Adventure traveler James Dorsey takes readers around the world to not only explore ancient trails, but to help immerse readers in the old traditions of lands that seem to be disappearing in the modern world. This book of short...

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...

A beautiful Place to Die

A beautiful Place to Die
  • Author(s): Malla Nunn
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper — a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger...

A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season
  • Author(s): André Brink
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Ben du Toit teaches history and geography in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the period of the height of the youth riots in the township of Soweto. He is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way –...

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