The first book in the series following the life and adventures of Dr Sopwith Jones. The story explains why this South African bears such an unusual name, originated from the First World War fighter aircraft, the Sopwith Camel. We learn too how the Joneses, of Welsh heritage, migrated to South Africa and Sopwith’s introduction to the world of flying.

Armed with a doctorate in aeronautical engineering, Sopwith leaves formal employment and develops a solar-powered Cessna 172, which attracts the attention of a corrupt South African government employee, who tries to claim the design for his own benefit. Sopwith flees South Africa rather than loose his dream. The British Government, keen to benefit from his innovation, assists his flight, conveying him to England aboard an aircraft carrier. He barely escapes an attempt to shoot his plane out of the sky en route to the carrier over the Indian Ocean.

On board, he meets the love of his life, Lt Ali Murray, a dashing fighter jet pilot. But once in England and seemingly betrayed by the British Government, the newlyweds are forced to flee to Africa, where extremist guerilla groups, private security companies and the British armed forces pursue them.

Unwittingly exposed by South African Air Force pilot Chuma Sandile and Canadian civil engineering student Jules Demet, and tracked by Britain’s Project Oberon satellite programme, the Jones couple face up their adversaries with courage and passion.

Will they survive against the overwhelming odds? And will Sopwith reap the benefits of his groundbreaking invention?

An ancient fallen angel is discovered. All hell is about to break loose.

In the year 2233, a mysterious pulsating energy source from Antarctica leads to the discovery of a chained fallen angel deep in the icy trenches of the earth. Micah, a Commander with the Europe, Middle East & Africa Search and Rescue, is feared dead after he plummets down a shaft during this exploratory mission. Lydia refuses to believe that he’s gone and launches her own risky mission with his teammates to retrieve what might be left of the man she loves.

In secret, another dark alliance gathers with their own evil agenda. Demonic entities noticed the discovery of the fallen angel too and plan to use his powers to access an ancient, sealed scroll. Their goal is to reverse Revelation prophecies and bring about their own terrifying version of the apocalypse.

Lydia finds herself in the middle of a treacherous race and an ancient battle that spans back to Day Six of Creation.

Will she find Micah alive? And will they be able to save the world from this supernatural onslaught? Only time will tell if all will be lost in the great divide between good and evil.

Manon Viljoen is ‘n jong advokaat en ywerige motorfietsryer. Sy word ingeroep om as amicus curiae die regter by te staan in ‘n moordsaak om ‘n regverdige uitspraak te lewer. Die beskuldigde is Charles Mouton, ‘n suksesvolle senior advokaat wat een oggend wakker word langs die bebloede lyk van sy vrou en van haar moord aangekla word. Hy weet nie wat gebeur het nie. Of so beweer hy. Hy weier om aan die verhoor deel te neem omdat hy glo die hof moet die waarheid soek. Dit val dus op Manon se skouers om die waarheid te soek en voor die hof te lê. Manon se aanstelling word bemoeilik deur die feit dat sy en regter Nantes Castel ‘n geskiedenis het. Die verhoor loop allerande draaie terwyl Manon na redelike twyfel soek en terselfdertyd haar gevoelens vir Nantes bevraagteken. Stel hy nog belang, of terg hy haar sommer net?

Vind Manon die waarheid waarna sy soek ‒ oor die identiteit van die moordenaar en ook oor Nantes se gevoelens vir haar? Of is daar redelike twyfel?

Oom Chris is die baas van Doodsedrif – of so het hy gedink. Sy vet, bruin kalf lê versuip langs die seekoeigat. Toe dryf oom Jan Oortjies se ou hond opgeblaas langs die oewer. Kraaibek, die mak bobbejaan, spring kort daarna waansinnig in die rivier en verdrink.

Telkens sien oom Chris se seuns die drietonige voetspoor op die riviersand. Manienk, een van die plaasseuns, meen dis Salmaklak, “die gladde nat dier wat hier by jou in die water is”. Hy trek die diere in die water in en los hul liggame om in die rivier af te dryf.

Maar wie het die Tswanaseun met ’n graaf oor die kop geslaan en in ’n vlak graf begrawe?

Struggling with integrating back into society after escaping her captor after five years of torture, sexual abuse as well as prostitution, Minenhle finds herself turning against the people who love her the most.

Haunted by dreams and memories of her torture and torment she turns to illegal substances in order to try and deal with the pain.

From Afghanistan to Johannesburg, from Libya to London, a team of highly trained undercover operatives is engaged in a race against time as terrorists plan an attack on the US Embassy in South Africa.

Martin Stevens, Eleanor Watts, Nombeko Tshivhase and Lukas Shabalala work for the underground agency IA3 under the command of Sid Blackman, Thabo Madonsela and Julius Mafere.

When a child-trafficking ring is exposed this team must enlist the aid of the CIA and the local police services in a dangerous mission to unearth the ring-leaders. But the tentacles of this evil gang extend far beyond the borders of South Africa and the team’s investigations lead them deeper and further than they ever believed they would go.

What is the connection to the gangs of Soweto and how is the nefarious and powerful Imam Abed Al Kumein involved? What is one of the largest investment banks in South Africa’s role and who is the mysterious hacker, Vladimir Al-Masri?

What is the most you would do to halt the malevolent actions of powerful people? How many dots would you join, when they led you into unspeakable horrors and danger?

When Adam’s wife Wendy is murdered, he executes a series of vigilante killings and as a result is invited to join an organised covert operations unit, IA3, rather than face life in prison.

Given a new name and a new identity (and a faked death to boot) Adan adopts the identity of Bataleur and commences his new life as a trained and lethal crime fighter and assassin, working directly for the government. Alongside his new colleagues, he works to take down prominent political players when requested, targeting corrupt businessmen and politicians alike to maintain national security and restore apparent order.

Taking place in South Africa, Inside Out explores crime, corruption, gang culture and politics using multiple narratives and various newspaper clippings to paint a vivid and action-packed story of lawbreaking and violence that is well-concealed from society.

The poaching of rhinoceros for the mythical medicinal qualities of the horns has reached alarming proportions in recet years. The magnificent beasts are facing extinction at the hands of unscrupulous criminals. Bataleur and IA3 together with Edward Brown of the CIA and Willie Engelbrecht of the Serious Crimes Unit work at source in the Kruger Park to expose a rhino poaching and horn smuggling ring.

Issued with a ‘Code 1’ sanction order the group show no mercy to those involved.

How does a mysterious cult feature and could a leading South African business tycoon be involved? Ex-merceneries and crooked rangers lead to a London gangster and his evil and violent family.

Upside Down has a realistic and topical plotline and is packed with excitement and action. Upside Down draws the reader into a better understanding of the scale of the problem and of the dangers exposed.

When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. But all is not as it seems.

An autopsy reveals that, although he’s clearly very old, his internal organs are puzzlingly young. What’s more, an old bullet is lodged in one of his muscles … but where is the entry wound? When the body is stolen from the morgue and a local witch doctor is reported missing, Detective ‘Kubu’ Bengu gets involved. But did the witch doctor take the body to use as part of a ritual? Or was it the American anthropologist who’d befriended the old Bushman? As Kubu and his brilliant young colleague, Detective Samantha Khama, follow the twisting trail through a confusion of rhino-horn smugglers, foreign gangsters and drugs manufacturers, the wider and more dangerous the case seems to grow.

A fresh, new slice of ‘Sunshine Noir’, Dying to Live is a classic tale of greed, corruption and ruthless thuggery, set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, and featuring one of crime fiction’s most endearing and humane heroes.

Magdaleen Verster probeer die stukke van haar lewe optel na die dood van haar tweelingsuster, Misha. Wanneer sy ’n onwaarskynlike vriendskap smee met haar eksentrieke buurman, die wetenskaplike Darius Achenbach, bevind sy haar in die opwindende maar omstrede wêreld van stamselnavorsing.

Asof Misha haar aksies vanuit die dood rig, vind gematigde Magdaleen dat sy skielik bereid is om groot risiko’s te neem. Sy kan haar suster nie terugbring nie, tog kan sy moontlik ’n verskil aan ander se lewens maak. Wat begin as ’n onbaatsugtige projek, vang haar gou vas in geheime bedrywighede waarvan sy min verstaan. Wie is so angstig om Darius se navorsing te ontspoor? Of wil hulle dit dalk vir hulself toeëien?

Alles kom teen ’n prys. En soms is die prys van een mens se lewe ’n ander mens se dood.

Twee plaasdramas oor grense, tradisies, grond en bloed.

Melk & Vleis

Dis 1996. Suid-Afrika het verander, maar sekere huishoudings nog nie. ’n Suksesvolle aktuaris los haar werk in die stad nadat sy verlief raak op ’n sjarmante jong boer. Sy probeer haar bes om in te pas by die kleindorpse gemeenskap, haarself in haar huwelik te laat geld, en die familieplaas van ondergang te red. Nadat ’n erfgenaam gebore word, begin dinge egter op die plaas uitrafel ...

Bloed & Bodem

Jana besoek haar pa en oom op die familieplaas. Die plaas gaan agteruit en haar pa sit meer op die kroegstoel as die kerkbank. Een nag los hy in sy dronkenskap die hek oop en dit word ‘n aand wat niemand sal vergeet nie... ’n Verhaal oor plaasaanvalle en die desperate nalatenskap van Afrikanermans wat nooit kon heel nadat hulle aan die “verkeerde” kant van die apartheidstryd geveg het nie.

Based on a true story.

The Girdlestone’s yacht is stolen by desperate thieves in Cape Town, and sailed off to… who knew where? A worldwide search by Nelson and Maureen leads to a miraculous discovery halfway across the globe.

Fetching the yacht and then, taking advantage of circumstances, Nelson and Maureen start enjoying a nomadic cruising life in the magical Caribbean and Mediterranean waters before returning home and setting up operations in a newly established V&A.

Coenraad de Buys was the most dangerous man around in the Cape of the late 1700s.

At eight he crossed his first frontier and left his mother’s house behind. Left his home (the first of many); left the Cape; left civilisation.

From the Langkloof Buys roves – a giant, a legend, polygamist and swindler; the bane of government, father to chieftains and a Buysvolk of his own. Everywhere his wild oats are sown; everywhere renegades and criminals join his band of outcasts. He interprets between Xhosa and English but speaks only his own words.

And everywhere on his travels, always there is the pack of dogs and the earless red leader that put Buys on his restless path. In Buys’ tracks, in his head, around his camp fires the slavering jaws snap.

He was born in the Langkloof. He died on the banks of the Limpopo. But Buys is not dead.

Red Dog is a novel about frontiers and borders. The Afrikaans original Buys was hugely acclaimed in 2014. Now it has been masterfully translated by Michiel Heyns.

Sunday. Christmas Eve. There is a break-in at the Stables Estate in Pretoria East. Businessman Lafras van Zyl is left for dead and his family has disappeared without a trace. After six weeks there are still no clues, and Captain AJ Williams has been summoned to solve the case. Alex Derksen and Ranna Abramson are on the trail of Martina Buitendag (17), who went missing in Yeoville. Two crimes. Too many secrets. Nowhere to hide.

Kassie has never had to cope with a case like this before, and his emotions are getting the better of him. As a rookie cop he learned to keep his distance from a case, not get emotionally involved, because that’s when mistakes happen. But this case makes distance impossible . . . children’s lives are at stake. And every time he and Rooi seem to be making progress with the case, it slithers out from under them, like a venomous snake.

Bloedbroers. 'n Vriendskap en totale vertroue gesmee in Angolese pseudooperasies. Carlos Veiyera, die veteraan met 'n duister, gewelddadige verlede. Tex Texeira, sy talentvolle protégé.

En toe is die oorlog verby. Of is dit?

Hoekom, na jare van donker geheime, het Carlos nou die grens oorgesteek as renosterstroper in Mosambiek? Die gevreesde, onaantasbare Kalingono, dood verklaar na ‘n duister operasie … nou moordend terug?

Militêre Inligting soek antwoorde. En Tex Texeira is die enigste operateur wat dit naby hom kan waag. As hy die skietdood van sy eie vrou kan verwerk. En die gevoel van 'n lokval wat hy net nie kan afskud nie ...

Nadat Ella Neser as moordspeurder uit die polisie bedank het, het sy op plesierbote in die Karibiese See gaan werk. Toe kom die virus, en sy is verplig om na Suid­Afrika te repatrieer. Nou sit sy sonder werk en sonder toekoms. Sy word gevra om 'n private ondersoek te loods op die dorpie Osspruit in Mpumalanga. Vier jong manne het oënskynlik besluit om voor en tydens die inperkingstyd weg te loop, maar meer sinistere gebeure word agter hulle verdwynings vermoed . . .

Die aksie speel binne vier dae in Julie af, tydens die grendeltyd. Hoe dieper Ella begin krap, hoe meer besef sy daar is 'n gewetenlose brein wat agteraf konkel met die steenkoollorries na Eskom as rookskerm. Ella is genoodsaak om haar eie intuïsie te vertrou ten einde by die waarheid uit te kom – maar dit gebeur nie sonder verdere hikke en bloedlating nie.

Man uit die dode verskyn as krimi­vervolgverhaal op Netwerk24 en daarna in boekvorm by H&R. Dit speel af net voor die aanvang van Die versoeking van Thomas Maas.

In Julie 1905 kry Siegfried Bock van die Kaiserliche Landespolizei te kampe met ’n plaaslike boer se grudood, spoke uit sy verlede en ’n Berlynse besoeker wat ’n dodelike wrok koester. Hy worstel met Duits-Suidwes-Afrika se onstuimige politiek en ongenaakbare natuur. As hy geregtigheid wil laat seëvier, moet hy dít, asook strominge in sy eie gemoed, te bowe kom. 'Tweegevreet bied, soos sy voorganger, Die vertes in, spanning én stof tot nadenke.

Spanning from present day until the near future, this novel tells the story of three men facing the rapid unravelling of their world, due to cataclysmic climate collapse.

Luthando’s environmental activism leads to a clash with the government. His life partner, Viwe, becomes embroiled in religious end-of-days fanaticism. And their friend Malcolm worries that his work in biotech augmentation will be used for sinister purposes.

A story about resilience and our capacity for love in the face of fear.

When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town’s Sea Point promenade, investigative journalist and criminal 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 bind Cape Town’s crime rings. Are her investigations into human trafficking really linked to the murders or is the killer just playing sick games with her?

Naomi Mandisa Nel leads a secret life as a vigilante assassin, making sure justice is served where the system has failed to bring criminals to book. It is a life her policeman fiancé knows nothing about.

Now she has been recruited to join a team of operatives on a risky mission to save schoolgirls who have been kidnapped by terrorists in Northern Mozambique. They have a window period of only nine hours to infiltrate the enemy camp deep in the Doente Forest and extract the girls before they are moved and might disappear forever. Before the terrorists grow stronger and succeed in their plan of toppling the government. Meanwhile, Aisha Ezekwesili, one of the abductees, has a daring escape plan. But if she fails and is recaptured, she will surely be killed...

Filled with adventure and suspense, Nine Hours is a novel about courage and justice that will keep you reading with bated breath until the very end.

’n Reeksmoordenaar jag by stormweer, en Rooi en Kassie moet hom vastrek. Die Hartedief kom met moord weg, en dan is Kassie se volle aandag ook nie eintlik by die saak nie, want hy is smoorverlief op ’n aanvallige mede-seëlversamelaar. Vlerksleep is nie vir sissies nie. Om sake vir hom en Rooi te vererger word hul baas daarvan verdink dat sy hul ondersoek in die wiele ry, en Kassie moet haar onskuld bewys. Intussen word Kaapse vroue vermoor wanneer daar onweer broei.

Painter Nick Steyn moves to Cape Town after separating from his partner. A young boarder moves in and they soon become friends. But one night she does not come home, and his attempts to trace her come to nothing. Could Nick’s former friend, Victor Schoeman, the author of the outrageous novel The Shallows, have a hand in them? A fantastical, absurd yet haunting novel by the award-winning novelist Ingrid Winterbach. Translated as always by Michiel Heyns.

It’s been a year since Nonhle Ngubane was held hostage on a windswept mountain by two crooked and murderous men. She’s settled into her new job at The Last Outpost Lodge and her greatest concern is whether the man she loves, feels the same way.

While she contemplates matters of the heart, the rhino poaching war continues to escalate and kingpins are partnering with corrupt judges. Her friends, Thomas McKenzie and Senzo Mdletshe, find themselves fighting a daily battle to keep the poachers at bay.

Then Nonhle discovers that leopard populations are also under attack. While their skins are worn with pride as a symbol of power and royalty across the African continent, farmers destroy leopards that threaten their livestock, and big game hunters offer illegal hunts to paying guests.

When the former assassin, Zikhona, wakes up next to a dead body in an affluent Johannesburg suburb, she knows of only one person who can clean up her mess, uncle Zenzele. The incident unravels ghosts of the past, forcing the Z Gang to crawl out of their Mozambican hideout.

It is not only Zikhona’s situation that is intricate but the gang’s wealth back home is threatened by the torching of their taxis. They are also about to lose their millions through the elaborate laundering syndicate of a murderous underworld mobster while also nursing a terminally-ill member.

Zenzele resorts to the only thing he knows best – guns, treachery and dark powers – while unleashing his battle-hardened gang to fend off the police and the underworld mobsters chasing Zikhona hell-bent on forcing her back into her contract-killing past. Her marriage to a flamboyant Nigerian pastor hits the skids.

With fewer friends and desperate to save their millions, Zenzele is forced to tap deep into the reserves of old connections, where loyalties still hold. His knack to keep everyone in his debt reaches its pinnacle. Staying alive would take ingenuity, conniving, outsmarting the SAPS crime intelligence and a Police Minister, desperate to save his political career. However, discovering that their enemies are closer to home than they had thought is the ultimate betrayal.