Africa, 1906: A young Australian adventurer is condemned to death.

Sydney, the present: journalist Nick Eatwell has just lost his job, but his day is brightened when a fellow reporter, South African Susan Vidler, comes into his life looking for his help with a story.

Susan is chasing information about Nick's great-great uncle, Cyril Blake, who fought in the Anglo-Boer War and later joined the struggle for independence across the border in the German colony of South West Africa, now Namibia. A long-lost manuscript proves Nick's forebear was a somewhat reluctant hero. Soldier, deserter, cattle rustler and freedom fighter, Blake was helping the lost cause before the Kaiser's forces ordered his assassination.

In Germany, historian Anja Berghoff is researching the origins of the famed desert horses of Namibia. She's also interested in Blake and an Irish-German firebrand and spy, Claire Martin, with whom Blake had an affair. Nick and Anja head to Africa on the trail of a legend, but someone else is delving into the past, looking for clues to the secret location of a missing horde of gold that's worth killing for.

Spanning two centuries, Ghosts of the Past is based on a true story.

Die hel is los in Johannesburg se strate. Iemand is besig om jong meisies wreed af te maai en die bloedspoor wat hy agterlaat, sê: “Reeksmoorde”. Die stapel slagoffers raak kaptein David Majola en adjudant Jason Basson se gemors.

Kaptein Majola: ’n man deurmekaar met wit lyne en opgerolde geldnote wie se ma en suster steeds in die township sit en krepeer. Adjudant Basson: die tipe polisieman wat veel eerder die Mag jare gelede vaarwel moes roep.

Terwyl koerante en politici blaf en die taxibase met ’n verwoestende staking dreig, moet Majola en Basson duiwels in ’n malse stad trotseer.

A cryptic killer is cruising the streets of Johannesburg. He’s picking up young women to torture and mutilate, and it’s down to Captain David Majola and Warrant Officer Jason Basson to follow the trail of blood and find him.

Majola, plagued by cocaine and lost love, feels the need to prove himself after his early promotion; his partner Basson, imprinted by the bad old days, wishes he’d walked out on the SAPS years ago. Tensions between the two rise as the bodies pile up, and while newspapers and politicians hurl accusations and the taxi bosses threaten a devastating strike, Majola and Basson must face the demons of a crazy city.

Ses vroue van verskillende agtergronde beland saam op ’n plaas in die Cederberge. Hoewel elkeen sy eie hartseer het om te verwerk moet hulle almal saamwerk om ’n groter krisis op te los. ’n Aksiebelaaide roman ’n Christelike agtergrond oor ’n tema wat al hoe meer relevant word vandag: mensehandel.

Malachi is recruited by a powerful pharmaceutical company to work at their top-secret facility off the African coast. Frasier Pharmaceuticals are assured of his discretion, as his tongue was cut out in an attack by genocidaires. At their organ farming operation, they can offer him more than financial reward - Malachi will get a new tongue. He simply has to act as carer and jail-keeper to the hardened criminals who are used as subjects. But are the prisoner-donors all as bad as the company says?

Dit was die vyftiende jaar van ekonokrasie. Vyftien jaar nadat ons ons demokrasie vir die Korporasie verruil het. Die politiek is geprivatiseer. Nes ons polisiediens en hospitale, dekades vroeër. Danksy tegnologie, die stygende reënval, die veranderende klimaat, kon die land aan derduisende yskoue, dankbare Amerikaners en Kanadese blyplek bied. Vir beide die aankomelinge én die gevestigde inwoners het voorspoed en ’n beter lewe aangebreek.

So het ons geglo, of so is aan ons vertel. Maar nou leer ek ’n nuwe taal. Die taal van onthou. En dit maak my gevaarlik.

Wanneer ’n mediese dokter die aandag van die Sentinels trek, moet hy deur ’n verwoeste landskap vlug. In ’n wêreld waar ’n skynson lig verskaf, raak hy ’n pion in ’n komplot waarvan hy onbewus is. Selfs die verdwyning van sy kind tydens die chaos en die kosopstande voor die Wending kon hom nie hierop voorberei nie.

In ’n land sonder voëls is ’n verdoemende ondersoek na die impak van ’n totalitêre bestel en een man se besinning oor sterflikheid en dít wat ons mense maak.

Familiegeheime dreig om hul geluk te verongeluk ...

Mona se huwelik eindig op 'n laagtepunt en haar eksman het goed daarin geslaag om haar minderwaardig te laat voel. Ná haar onverwagse erflating gee nie net die finansiële voordele haar nuwe selfvertroue nie maar veral die besef dat sy oor haar eie lewe en sukses beskik. Só kom dit dat sy 'n gastehuis cum skrywershuis begin waar skrywers kan kom werk. Sy kry met skrywers van alle soorte te doen, sommige aspirerend, ander so bekend dat hulle werk in verskeie tale vertaal word. Tydens die Woordfees op Stellenbosch is daar veral een bekende skrywer wat die vroue op hol het en Mona allesbehalwe onaangeraak laat.

Of sy inderdaad spesiaal is vir hom en of sy haar verbeel, is 'n vraag wat sy maar self moet probeer beantwoord. Maar daar is 'n groter probleem. Mona weet dit is nie wys om jou hart te verloor op 'n man waaroor die vroue so swymel nie. Net gou het sy baie vyande gemaak want sy is nie die enigste wat oor hom droom nie en haar eksman gun haar nie geluk nie. Boonop word haar eienaarskap van die huis bevraagteken.

Hierdie is nie net 'n liefdesverhaal nie, maar het ook spanningselemente.

South Africa has a rich and varied criminal community. The Italians with their mafia connections, the Chinese triads, the Nigerians, the Russians, Koreans, Indians . . . not to mention all the homegrown felons. Still grieving following the death of her dad, her guiding light and an honest cop if ever there was one, Ellie McKenna accepts a mission to infiltrate Cape Town’s dark criminal underbelly.

She knows full well that in her line of work the brave often end up dead . . . blindsided by a faceless enemy.

Wilna Adriaanse’s Blindside is the first of her novels to be translated into English, soon to be followed by its sequel, Endgame.

As the head of Wits Mining, the last major mining company to do an empowerment deal, Max Sinclair has a mandate from the board and a clear directive: to sell a share of the company to a black consortium. Born and bred in the city that remains, at heart, a mining camp built on gold and the greed of men, Max is used to being a player in the high-stakes game of deals and political influence, and he keeps his cards close to his chest.

There is no shortage of takers for the deal. A shareholding spells possible riches for some – like Sifiso Lesibe, geologist and newest member of the board – and increased influence for others, such as the Pradesh family. Support for the deal from government is crucial, particularly when it comes to mining and mineral rights. Politics, power and money are an irresistible combination. Mistrust is everywhere and nothing is as it seems.

Former human rights lawyer Musa Madondo has seen the rise and fall of many a former comrade and he knows he is not immune to the tug of temptation. When Walter Berryman, a former client and friend, comes to Musa for professional advice, in fear of his life after having stumbled across evidence of large-scale industry collusion, he finds himself drawn into an underworld of intrigue and sophisticated espionage every bit as ruthless and deadly in the present day as it was during the country’s struggle for liberation. And in Johannesburg, as in politics, things change in an instant.

Bare Ground is the third book authored by Peter Harris. In a Different Time (2008; winner of the Alan Paton Non Fiction award) was about the 1980s and an extraordinary treason trial. The second book, Birth (2011), was about the extreme challenges that South Africa encountered in getting to and conducting the 1994 election. This novel, located in the cauldron of Johannesburg, is about the society we have become.

Sacrificed is the English translation of Offerlam. The Congo, 1961: A man is murdered in cold blood and his beloved is left for dead. Fifty-three years later, Caz Colijn receives a phone call that tears her out of her reclusive life. In Belgium, where she tries to trace her and her daughter’s family origins, it becomes clear that that country’s colonial past has had as much impact on her life as the apartheid years in South Africa did. The phone call Professor Luc DeReu receives is less traumatic, but he too is ripped out of his familiar orbit when the woman he blames for his father’s premature death re-enters his bland existence. In the meantime, Erevu and his grandson must trace the nkisi taken from them more than five decades ago in order for them to fulfil their holy mission. When the paths of this group of people cross, it leads once again to murder.

Kassie Kasselman is kriewelrig. Sy lewe lank poeliesman gewees, maar wat hy nóú alles oor die SAPD lees . . . Hy't juis 'n ander werksaanbod. En dan kom hy teen die grieseligste booswig nóg te staan, en moet blitsig slim skuiwe bedink om die Pion van die bord af te vee. Spioenasie, wapenhandelkorrupsie en 'n moordenaar uit jou nagmerries . . .

Dark traces is the English translation of Martin Steyn’s first suspense novel, Donker spoor. When a child is murdered, it always seems as if a light has been extinguished in a parent’s eyes. They find her decomposing body in the veld. A teenager. She was raped and tortured for days. She was hanged. She wasn’t the first. The South African Police Service’s Warrant Officer Jan Magson, estranged from his son and still grieving for his wife, is assigned to the case. He has to look the mothers and fathers in the eye. He has to answer their questions. And he can’t. Headlines question the police’s ability to protect the community from this evil. A newspaper prints a mother’s heart-wrenching letter to the killer. A father offers a substantial reward. And every time another lead reaches a dead end, Magson finds himself looking down at another dead girl. Winner of the 2015 ATKV Prize for Suspense Fiction, Martin Steyn’s Dark traces deals with two sides of homicide: sadistic murder and euthanasia: killing for pleasure and killing for love.

Stellenbosch se studente is opstandig. Die dorp brand, en in Sophia se klein dog veilige huisie droom sy van Pompeii en wegloop, weg van elke dag se sleur by BoekWeb en haar man se speurderwerk. Wanneer haar klein Magriet wegraak en Sophia ontvoer word, moet sy egter spartel om uit die web te kom – haar kind moet van die spinnekop gered word. In Naomi Meyer se debuutroman word die Boland, SA en ons almal se brandpunte helder verlig.

Februarie, 1861. ’n Groepie trekboere maak naby die Gamagara-rivier in die Kalahari staning. Nie ver daarvandaan nie, le Stilbos – ’n misterieuse bos sonder voels, maar ook die skuilplek van die Doodsroeper, ’n onaardse wese wat uitroep voordat iemand sterf. Kort voor lank word die geskende lyk van een van die boere in die bos gevind. Dit is ongetwyfeld moord en Soois Bruwer, ’n verloopte wetsman, word versoek om ondersoek in te stel. Hoe dieper hy delf, hoe ingewikkelder word die saak en hoe meer besef hy dat hy eintlik maar bitter min van die mense om hom weet. Op hul hulp kan hy ook nie juis reken nie. Daar is nou wel oom Albert Siener met sy vreemde visioene, maar daarvan verstaan Soois g’n snars nie. Dan is daar Nella Uys, ’n onkonvensionele, geheimsinnige vrou wat baie weet, maar min se. En klein Krisjan Harmse wat die oplossing vir die raaisel ken, verraai niks. Net toe Soois dink hy is op die regte spoor, roep die Doodsroeper weer en sit hy met ’n tweede lyk op hande. Nou moet hy alles inspan om die moordenaar vas te trek, maar ’n hele klompie verrassings wag nog op hom ...

Wanneer Kassie Kasselman die verdwyning van 'n ekskollega begin ondersoek, is dit duidelik dat hier meer as net 'n dwelmverwante verdwyning skuil. Hoe lyk dit dan of dit verband hou met die ontvoering wat sy kollega Rooi Els se vrou se werkplek getref het? Van die Kaapse ganglands tot die Kruger-wildtuin met sy renosterstropers; tussen 'n verslonsde Bolandse hoewe met 'n grieselige visdam en die glans-en-skanswêreld van diplomasie moet Kassie sy pad voel-voel vind - of Rooi se vrou is visvoer.

Dead In The Water is Irna van Zyl’s highly anticipated debut thriller. Set on the coast near Hermanus in the fictitious town of Grootbaai, shark-cagediving capital of the world, the novel features oddball detective Storm van der Merwe.

Stocky, smart and unconventional, Storm was banished to Hermanus after demonstrating against the shooting of beached whales. She now keeps out of trouble in the seaside town by working on cold cases. But how can she keep a low profile when bodies, limbs and other evidence keep appearing on the sandy shores of Grootbaai?

When the body of investigative journalist Jessica Stander washes up on the beach minus an arm, Storm realises that the situation at Grootbaai is even more dangerous than she suspected.

In Irna van Zyl’s page-turning thriller, everyone’s a suspect and the stakes are deadly.

In die afgeleë Sneeuberge van die Oos-Kaap soek ’n groep argeoloë onder leiding van die nimlike professor Attie Vermaak na ’n reeks rotstekeninge: ’n befaamde oorlogstafereel van ruiters en vlugtendes. Groot is hul vreugde toe hulle dié kunswerk na ’n uitmergelende soektog vind.

Hulle blydskap is egter van korte duur: ’n gevaarlike groep drosters oorrompel hulle en neem hulle gevange. Onder angswekkende omstandighede deel ekspedisie- en bendelede dieselfde kampeerplek terwyl die bendekaptein wag op verslag deur twee verspieders wat hy na die buitewêreld stuur om ’n losprys te eis.

Amatola is Piet van Rooyen op sy beste.

After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can't take any more tragedy. So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point - a former friend and detective colleague has shot his wife and two daughters, then killed himself. Benny wants out - out of his job, his home and his relationship with his singer girlfriend, Alexa.

He moves into a hotel and starts drinking. Again. But Benny's unique talent is urgently required to help investigate another crime - the high profile murder of Ernst Richter, MD of a new tech startup, Alibi, whose body is discovered buried in the sand dunes north of Cape Town. Alibi is a service that creates false appointments, documents and phone calls to enable people to cheat on their partners. It has made Richter one of the most notorious people in South Africa.

Can Benny pull together the strands of his life in time to catch the killer?

Beendere word gevind op 'n stortingsterrein, en skielik moet speurder Kassie Kasselman nuut dink oor ou moordsake. Gou begin die moorde vinnig opmekaar kom, en tussendeur die nuwe buurvrou wat Kassie se kop aan't swymel het, én sy enorme posseël-meevaller weens nog 'n moord, moet hy uitwerk waarom 'n geheimsinnige bende skynbaar besig is om sigself uit te roei. Elke warm leidraad lewer 'n koue lyk op, en Kassie kan nie voorbly nie . . .

Dit lyk asof kaptein Kassie Kasselman met 'n reeksmoordenaar te kampe het toe Kaapstad se ses en vyftigjarige mans kopskote begin kry. Maar Kassie is nie oortuig die moorde dui nie op iets anders nie . . .

’n Jong, roekelose joernalis ondersoek die moord van ’n regter. Dit lei haar na oud-Recces met griewe, oorlewingskampe, ’n geheime organisasie genaamd Die Beskermers, wraak, intimidasie en verskeie moorde.

Daar's 'n moorddossier op inspekteur Kassie Kasselman se lessenaar . . . Van Nigeriese rebellegroepe, dwelmsluikhandel uit Kaapstad wat raak aan die Taliban, en polisiemolle met duister geskiedenisse moet Kassie - posseël- en boeremusiekliefhebber, alleenloper-speurder met 'n ernstige waarskuwing op sy diensrekord - sin maak. Iemand het sleg geknoei, maar hoe hoog op strek die kwaad? Slagyster is 'n debuut-spanningsverhaal deur 'n opwindende nuwe stem in die genre, en vir inspekteur Kasselman sal ons vorentoe weer ontmoet.

’n Spanningsvolle roman oor ’n man in wie ’n onbekende mag stadig die oorhand kry.

Die verhaal wentel rondom Samuel wat as seun reeds kennis maak met die donker sy van die lewe. Sy inisiasies in die grootmenswêreld (liefde, seks, die “reëls” van die ou Suid-Afrika, joernalistiek), van die 1970’s tot die 1990’s, is vervleg met sy obsessie met die skêrmoordenares Marlene Lehnberg.

’n Boeiende, intrigerende roman – die skrywer kry dit goed reg om die tydsgees en die manier waarop onskuld geleidelik verdwyn oor te dra.

Polisievrou Erica van der Linde het die perfekte manier gevind om te verseker dat getuies onder haar bewaring in die getuiebeskermingsprogram in Kaapstad versteek bly. Sy vermoor hulle.

En wanneer die voormalige kriminele oorgaan van ’n lewe van misdaad na diè van versteekte staatsgetuies, is daar niemand wie vir hulle soek nie.

Maar sy’t nog nooit ’n getuie soos Daniel Enslin teëgekom nie.

Van In is terug! Hierdie keer het hy net 'n skeenbeen en sy intuïsie om die donker raaisel mee op te los, maar hy moet gou speel.

Dis nie net sy loopbaan wat op die spel is nie, 'n mooi jong meisie is deur sy toedoen in die booswigte se mag.