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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery
Victor Zulu has to take control of the family-owned club in which both his father and brother were killed. Will he be next?
He’ll have to watch his back with gangsters coveting the club as a place to push drugs. Meanwhile, his brother’s best friend, Fana, wants to buy the club from the Zulus – but with what money? And then there’s Busie, his brother’s widow whom Victor secretly loves, but even she seems to have secrets.
A thrilling tale of mystery and suspense, danger and daring.
Drie van die die geliefde Ena Murray se heel beste speur- en
spanningsverhale word hier byeengebring:
In Satan van Zimbabwe begin die intrige met 'n koerantberig oor 'n
bloedlose lyk met erg verswakte organe. Kan dit die volmaakte moord
wees, of is daar bonatuurlike kragte ter sprake? Ęrens, verskuil in die
mis tussen die mistieke Zimbabwe-ruďnes, lę die antwoord.
In Die man met die geel oë gee die werkgewers van geheime agent majoor
Brand Böhm aan hom 'n unieke opdrag: dié aangewese "Suid-Afrikaanse
James Bond" moet saam met 'n vrou van sy keuse een nag lank die stad
rooi te verf, en hom in die proses so skandelik
gedra dat hy oneervol uit die weermag ontslaan sal word.
En in Onrus op Oshakati hoop dr. Linda Maartens sy kan die donker wolk
wat oor haar professionele naam hang, ontvlug. Maar die verlede het ’n
manier om 'n mens te agtervolg . . . Terreuraktiwiteite en
dwelmsmokkelary vier hoogty – en kort voor lank word sy in ’n
web van misdaad vasgespin.
Two families at a secluded lake resort are at the center of a chilling crime in this twisty thriller from the bestselling author of Local Woman Missing.
Courtney Gray’s peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare when she discovers her brother and sister-in-law dead in their lakeside cottage. Her niece Reese is missing. Her nephew Wyatt is asleep upstairs—unharmed.
As police swarm the quiet resort, dark truths about Courtney’s family—and the town itself—begin to surface. Is Reese a victim… or the killer?
With everyone hiding something, Courtney races to uncover the terrible mystery. But the closer she gets, the harder it is to know who—or what—to trust.
Ek sal elke dag 'n poliesman skiet, tot julle die moordenaar van
Hanneke Sloet aankla. So lui die dreigbrief aan die SAPS. En dan
begin die jagtog. Bennie Griessel is die een wat die dossier moet
heropen. Die saak is 40 dae oud, die spoor is koud. Daar's geen
motief nie, geen leidrade nie, net 'n reeks naakfoto's, 'n hoogs
ingewikkelde saketransaksie, en onmenslike druk van topbestuur, die
media en die meedoenlose, onpeilbare sluipskutter. En deur dit
alles moet Griessel sy nuwe vriendin, die sangeres Alexa Barnard,
weghou van die bottel voor haar groot terugkeer-konsert, sy seun
keer om nie skandes te maak nie, sy kollegas weerhou daarvan om die
ondersoek te kelder, en sy eie, verterende lus vir die helende
kragte van drank in toom probeer hou. Sewe dae van hel.
The impossible puzzles, irresistible romance and shocking twists continue in the second instalment in the brand-new GRANDEST GAMES series, set in the world of the #1 bestselling THE INHERITANCE GAMES.
FIVE PLAYERS REMAIN.
Seven Players arrived on Hawthorne Island to play a billionaire's game. Now only five remain, and the race to the finish line is on.
EVERYONE IS A LIAR.
The heat turns up on the competition - and between the players - and it becomes increasingly clear that no one will emerge from the Grandest Game unscathed.
AND SOMEONE IS WATCHING.
Millions are at stake, but so are hearts - and lives.
THE GAME IS ON.
The stakes get higher, the game gets twistier, and everything heats up in this newest instalment in the TikTok sensation Inheritance Games Saga - now over 6 MILLION COPIES sold.
Millions, hearts, and lives are on the line in this heart-stopping sequel to The Grandest Game by #1 bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
Seven players arrived on Hawthome Island, each with their own secrets and motivations to win the Grandest Game. Millions are at stake, but so are hearts -and lives. The players now must race to win the game, solve myriad mysteries, and survive the twists and turns of Glorious Rivals.
The stakes get higher, the game gets twistier, and everything heats up in this newest instalment in the TikTok sensation Inheritance Games Saga now over 4 MILLION COPIES sold.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty acclaimed young-adult novels, including The Inheritance Games series, Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals, The Lovely and the Lost, and The Naturals series. Jen is also a Fulbright Scholar with advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and was a professor of psychology and professional writing at the University of Oklahoma for many years. She invites you to her online at www.jenniferlynnbames.com or follow her on Twitter @jenlynnbanes.
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We’re all so busy, caught up in life's moments, big and small . . .
The flight attendant working on her birthday.
The mother struggling with two young children.
The newlyweds off to their tropical honeymoon .
The overworked father missing his kid’s big show.
The young man returning from his best friend’s funeral.
The ER nurse wondering what retirement will bring.
All strangers. All unsuspecting. All on their own journey – or so they
imagine.
Because they are each about to encounter an elderly woman. In just a
few words, she will make a prediction, tying herself to them all. And,
in being bound to her, these disparate strangers will be drawn together
. . .
Who is this woman? Is she a clairvoyant? A charlatan? The answer to
prayers, or a harbinger of nightmares?
They are about to find out – here one moment . . .
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There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and
margarine.
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of
the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have
seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the
nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press,
entertaining no visitors. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes
a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist
writing back.
Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely
cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the
steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food than
journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help
her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing. With
each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body, might she and
Kaji have more in common than she once thought?
Inspired by the real case of the convicted con woman and serial killer,
"The Konkatsu Killer", Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, unsettling
exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance and the transgressive
pleasures of food in Japan.
He’s the perfect man.
He says he loves you.
You think he might even be made for you.
Before long he’s moved into your house – and into your heart.
And then he leaves for days at a time. You don’t know where he’s gone
or who he’s with.
And you realise - if you looked back - you’d say to yourself:
DON’T LET HIM IN.
Don’t miss the new read-in-one-sitting Lisa Jewell novel; a cautionary
story that could happen to you…
You’d never guess Lottie Jones had skeletons in her closet.
She’s lived in town for decades now. She’s getting older. She lives for
the simple pleasures of weekly bingo games at church, and gossiping
with her friends about their children’s love lives.
But when investigative journalist Plum Dixon shows up on her doorstep
asking questions about Lottie’s past, and specifically about her
connection to numerous unsolved murders, well, Lottie just can’t have
that.
But getting away with murder is hard enough when you’re young. And when
Lottie receives another annoying knock on the door, she realises this
crime might just be the death of her…
Moord aan boord van die Leonardo
Forensiese patoloog Madelein Blignaut het al te veel dood in haar
loopbaan gesien. Ná nog ’n ontstellende hofsaak besluit sy om
ontvlugting te gaan soek op die Leonardo, ’n luukse passasierskip wat
deur die verre ooste vaar.
Daar ontmoet sy ’n groep fassinerende Suid-Afrikaners: Die bekroonde
pianis Tibor Lindeque wat kort-kort bekommerd vir haar kyk en ’n
aantreklike kulkunstenaar Helmut Coleman wat gou vir haar
onweer-staanbaar raak.
Wanneer hulle op Okinawa afklim, vertel Tibor vir haar die inwoners van
hierdie eiland word oeroud. “Daar is nie dood op Okinawa nie.”
Maar hy is verkeerd. Kort voor lank tref hulle die een na die ander
medepassasier se lyk aan. ’n Storm dwing hulle na dieper waters toe, en
dan besef Madelein daar is ’n moordenaar op die Leonardo. Wie is dit?
Wat wil hulle hę? En, meer belangrik, wie’s volgende?
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.
An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous
package he was protecting has gone missing.
As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online
fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home.
With the body count rising, the package still missing and trouble
firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out? And who will be
the last devil to die?
A cunning killer. A race around the world.
An iconic new detective team is born.
Solving murders. It's a family business.
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of
investigation work, but he prefers the pub quiz and afternoons at home
with his cat Trouble. His days of adventure are over – that’s his
daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul, which makes being a
private security officer to billionaires the perfect job. She’s
currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie
D’Antonio alive. Then a dead body, a bag of money and a killer with
their sights on Amy have her sending Steve an SOS...
As a breakneck race around the world begins, can they stay one step
ahead of a deadly enemy?
Introducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his
mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a
low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics
drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up
the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his
new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed
down at the bottom of the harbor—a Jane Doe identifiable at first only
by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of
poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence
and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig.
Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, Stilwell doggedly
works both cases. Though hampered by an old beef with an ex-colleague
determined to thwart him at every turn, he is convinced he is the only
one who can bring justice to the woman known as “Nightshade.” Soon, his
investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the
serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big
city.
Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left
her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben
didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a
bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from
Paris. Only when she shows up - to find a very nice apartment, could
Ben really have afforded this? - he's not there.
The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her
brother's situation, and the more questions she has. Ben's neighbors
are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have
come to Paris to escape her past, but it's starting to look like it's
Ben's future that's in question.
The socialite - The nice guy - The alcoholic - The girl on the verge -
The concierge
Everyone's a neighbor. Everyone's a suspect. And everyone knows
something they're not telling.
From bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, comes a new novel in the bestselling Magpie Murders series in which editor, Susan Ryeland, uncovers the clues in an Atticus Pünd mystery to solve a murder.
Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder. She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third.
The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago.
Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again.
As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world – until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself.
It seems that someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it.
In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the
unstoppable Hercule Poirot finds himself in the Middle East with only
one day to solve a murder.
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen
Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her
wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her.
With only twenty-four hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule
Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: “You
see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?” Mrs. Boynton was, indeed,
the most detestable woman he’d ever met. . . .
Attending your best friend’s wedding should be a piece of (wedding)
cake, but not for bestselling mystery author Eleanor Dash. Because
murder seems to follow her every time she goes on holiday – and is her
uninvited plus-one to this special occasion . . .
Eleanor’s best friend, Emma, is starring in a movie alongside her
co-star and fiancé, Fred. As filming wraps, they invite the whole cast
and crew to their wedding at nearby Catalina Island.
There may be a storm headed their way – because of course there is –
but nothing will stop their nuptials. That is until Emma receives a
note that says: Someone is going to die at the wedding.
Eleanor is practically a professional detective at this point, and
she’ll do everything she can to uncover the murderer. But will this be
a destination wedding to die for in more ways than one?
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a
week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the
Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live
case.
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they
still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too
late?
It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I'm doing laundry. And one day I can't help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything....
That's when I make a promise. After all, I've done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It's simply a question of how far I'm willing to go....
An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train will be completely hooked!
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