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Daddy’s Girl

Daddy’s Girl
  • Author(s): Margie Orford
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

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...

Devil’s Peak

Devil’s Peak
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The former freedom fighter known as ‘Tiny’ has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life. But then his beloved son is taken away from him. In that moment, he unleashes himself upon a corrupt South Africa. His victims...

Like Clockwork

Like Clockwork
  • Author(s): Margie Orford
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Time is running out…A killer who won’t stop. An investigator who won’t give up. 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...

Mixed Blood

Mixed Blood
  • Author(s): Roger Smith
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The two faces of Cape Town: The sunny cosmopolitan part of Cape Town, where europeans hang out without a care: the other side where life is a huge struggle and no way out. Violence is the norm Camps Bay....

Thirteen Hours

Thirteen Hours
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

They killed her best friend. Now they are chasing Rachel Anderson through the streets of Cape Town. The young tourist doesn’t dare trust anyone – except her father, back home in America. When he puts pressure on the politicians,...

Up Against the Night

Up Against the Night
  • Author(s): Justin Cartwright
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘History . . . is seldom able to convey the essence of being human’ Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has a house in Notting Hill, a house in the...

Wake Up Dead

Wake Up Dead
  • Author(s): Roger Smith
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

3 Lives intersect in Cape Town, South Africa. Roxy Palmer needs to escape a bad marriage and some bad decisions…Billy Afrika, cold blooded killer, is looking for payment and redemption, Piper is looking for hid ture love.

Carte Blanche (007)

Carte Blanche (007)
  • Author(s): Jeffery Deaver
  • Location(s): Cape Town, Dubai, Serbia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

This is the 37th James Bond novel, written by American crime writer Jeffrey Deaver. It takes secret agent 007 from London to Serbia and Dubai, but much of the story is focused on the activities of Bond’s grotesque antagonist...

Dead Before Dying

Dead Before Dying
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s

The setting isCape Town in the months after the ANC has come to power and the changes are beginning to be felt. Matt Joubert has lost his wife and is grabbling with weight and alcohol problems – he is...

Dust Devils

Dust Devils
  • Author(s): Roger Smith
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A rich white man is murdered in Cape Town, his coloured mistress is witness to the murder. She runs back to her husband and children but the murderer is on to their whereabouts and hounds them. A complex and...

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