Jare gelede het die beeldskone digter Anna Neethling finaal uit die uitgewer Malan Sinclair se lewe gestap. Hul verhouding was ’n maalkolk wat sy huwelik en loopbaan wou verswelg. Maar nou is Anna onverwags terug. Wanneer Malan haar lyk langs sy motor vind ná ’n helse uitval in sy kantoor, bou die afwaartse spiral momentum op.

’n Paar dae later maak ’n uittreksel uit Anna se dagboek Malan die hoofverdagte in haar moord en kom gebeure wat ’n dekade gelede tydens ’n drinkparty op ’n wynplaas afgespeel het op die lappe. Iets het daardie aand in die kelder gebeur en meer as een paar hande is bevlek.

Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing persons report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, deeply disturbing turn.

Stellenbosch is beautiful, but its economy has been ruined by one man. Jasper Boonstra and his gigantic corporate fraud have crashed the local property market, just when estate agent Sandra Steenberg desperately needs a big sale. Bringing up twins and supporting her academic husband, she is facing disaster. Then she gets a call. From Jasper Boonstra, fraudster, sexual predator and owner of a superb property worth millions, even now.

For Sandra, the stakes are high and about to get way higher. For Benny Griessel, clinging to sobriety and the relationship that saved his life, the truth about Callie can only lead to more trouble.

What is the cost of giving a gift? What is the cost of receiving one?

At eleven years old, Julian Flint prefers to remain invisible, safe inside the architecture of adults provided by his mother, his uncle and his aunt.But when his mother, Emma, a celebrated sculptor, takes them all on a family holiday to a hotel by the sea, he meets the captivating and irreverent Clare and everything he thought he knew begins to shift – setting off a chain of events that will determine each of their fates.

From the author of The Dream House and The White Room comes Craig Higginson’s most gripping and nuanced novel to date. Moving from the lush beaches of uMhlanga Rocks to the stark midwinter wastes of Johannesburg and the rich and strange coral reefs of Mauritius, this masterfully plotted novel explores the fault lines between loyalty and betrayal, innocence and accountability, blindness and perception, entrapment and flight.

The Book of Gifts dives into the deepest and most hazardous reaches of human consciousness in order to catch the brightest fish.

Money. Money. Money. Tons of it. In US dollars. And it’s all being funnelled into a government tender snagged by family-owned Amalfi Civils. Which would be great for business if CEO Angela wasn’t fighting with her CFO brother Rej.

Where Angela sees corruption, Rej sees cabinet ministers, politicians, officials eager to lend a hand. For a fee. It’s a big pot so he’s happy to oblige. And if needs be he’ll take out his sister to keep the lucre.

There are other players in this game. The CIA for one. The State Security Agency for another. And a black op using lawyer and spy Vicki Kahn as a honeytrap to ensnare Rej’s middleman – the very same middleman that her lover, PI Fish Pescado, is investigating.

With these stakes, it’s only time before the killing starts.

Joernalis en meestersstudent Rachel April se lyk word gevind met ’n steekwond in haar hart. Lesea du Plessis, ’n medestudent, stel ondersoek in. Sy het Rachel se dogtertjie belowe sy sal uitvind wat met haar ma gebeur het.

Dit blyk dat Rachel tydens ’n internskap by die Anglo-Boereoorlogmuseum iets ontdek het. Maar wat kan dit wees?

Gou raak dit duidelik iemand wil keer dat Lesea en haar aanneemboetie die waarheid oor Rachel se moord ontbloot. En nou is hulle self in doodse gevaar.

Julia is die kamerprokureur in Izak Marais se regspraktyk op Worcester. Wanneer hy die oggend voor ’n groot hofsaak ineenstort, moet Julia dringend sake beredder – ten spyte van die feit dat sy gesweer het sy sit haar voete nooit weer in ’n landdroshof nie.  Om dinge nog meer te kompliseer is Julia heimlik daarvan oortuig dat die aangeklaagde skuldig is aan moord.

Dié pakkende hofdrama speel af in die Boland – die eerste in die nuwe reeks met die regsgeleerde Julia Blomerus in die hoofrol.