Privaat speurder Zeus van Wyngaardt sou nooit kon droom dat ’n godin soos Diana Engelbrecht (sy naam is Zeus, hy ken godinne) op ’n dag by sy gehawende kantoor in Springs sou instap nie. Haar opdrag: Vind die vermiste Esias Kok.

Zeus besef gou agter elke storie is daar baie stories, en dié godin is dalk nie wat sy voorgee om te wees nie. Soos wat hy elke spoor begin volg, vervaag die grense tussen die reële en die digitale wêreld, oortreder en slagoffer, skuld en onskuld …

In hierdie aweregse roman vervleg Julio Agrella die lewens van uiteenlopende karakters op vindingryke wyse. Dit wat agter die geslote deure van die armstes tot die rykstes in die samelewing gebeur, wys dat misbruik en geweld nie onderskeid tref nie. ’n Boek wat die leser sal skok, sal laat lag met die donker humor daarvan, en aan die raai sal hou tot die einde.

“Daar is spore doodgevee. Iemand het die opdrag gegee vir wat met
daai vyf moet gebeur. En ek wil weet wie.”

Daar is raaisels wat spook by Wim Kellerman, twee jaar ná die dood
van Jack Niemand. Hy en Portis praat min daaroor waar hulle woel in
die kweekhuis van Wim se skoenlapperboerdery op Wildernis. Maar
dit bly sluimer tussen hulle. Want wat het geword van Portis se vyf
jeugvriende wat in daai verskriklike jare van die tagtigs vermis geraak
het? En hoekom is die lyke van Simon Pope, die destydse hoof van
Bon Accord, en sy vrou, Rachel, nooit geïdentifiseer nie?

Al manier is om terug te loop op die spoor, voetjie vir voetjie. In sy
beendere weet Wim sy ou aartsvyand Simon Pope lewe nog. Dis
maklik om twee en twee bymekaar te sit, so hy koop ’n kaartjie
Kanada toe, kwansuis vir skoenlappersoektogte. En gaan soek die
meesterbrein agter die verdwyning van vyf kinders van die Kaapse
Vlakte. Kry, sal hy hom kry. Dis ’n lewenstaak – vir Portis, en vir Wim.

Bloemfonteinse speurder Sollie Mthembu en sy vrou, Nyandi, verwag hul tweede baba. Nes baba Naledi in haar buik, groei Nyandi se inkopielys van dag tot dag. Terwyl dié sersant planne beraam om naweekuitstappies na Mimosa Mall met sy kredietkaart te ontduik, sluip daar snags ’n psigopaat deur die strate van Harrismith wat kleuters met roomyse uit hul ouerhuise weglok en ontvoer.

Wanneer die oorskot van ’n verminkte vierjarige in ’n Fruitti Tutti-roomyskarretjie in die vroeë oggendure aan die voet van Platberg ontdek word, besluit kaptein Maartin Brummels om Parkweg se bulhond saam te sleep vir die ondersoek. Sollie lyk dalk na ’n bedeesde ou wat op die vreemdste tye oor sy eie woorde struikel, maar as hy iets beetkry, laat los hy nie.

Sidney Gilroy se debuutroman, Klikbek, is 2019 met groot lof deur resensente en krimi-lesers ontvang. Almal stem saam dat beide skrywer en speurder Sollie ’n groot aanwins tot die Afrikaanse krimikorpus is.

Speursersant Mthembu se huwelik lê aan skerwe. Nyandi het die kinders gevat en is sak en pak terug Lesotho toe. Terwyl Parkwegstasie se ace-speurder in ’n gastehuis in Bloemfontein wakker lê en tob oor sy aandeel, brand Xanadu-galery, tuiste van die wêreldberoemde SA kunstenaar Aretha Hattingh, tot op die grond af. Haar oeuvre ’n hoop as. En in die middel van die ruïne: die oorskot van ’n vrou, vermoedelik dié van Aretha.

In Parys ontmoet Sollie ’n hand vol verdagtes: ’n kunsagent, ’n prokureur, ’n slagter, ’n bouer en ’n koerier. Voeg hierby ’n venynige aanneemkind, ’n jaloerse, skatryk eksman, die dorp se sprankelvrou én ’n stasiebevelvoerder wat die septer na haar eie reëls en tyd swaai, en jy het die wenresep vir ’n intrige gevul met hoogdrama.

Is dit moord? Selfdood? Of bloot ’n fratsongeluk?

Sollie geniet reeds groot aftrek onder Afrikaase lesers. En Vlam, die nuwe roman deur Gilroy, beloof om soos sy vorige twee krimi’s te boei en te vermaak tot op die laaste bladsy.

Dis iewers in die nabye toekoms. Kolonel “Rooipiet” Moolman se lieflingprojek is die jaarlikse Versoeningsfees­opvoering, ’n eietydse weergawe van die Slag van Bloedrivier, wat by ’n inryteater bo­op Welkom se mynhoop gehou word. Enkele seisoene tevore is ’n merkwaardige vonds gemaak: ’n koperplaatfoto wat tydens die destydse veldslag geneem is . . en dit wys drie engele teen die oggendmis!

Net daar besluit Rooipiet dat die engele deel moet word van sy toneelstuk. Die neerdaal van die engele word die hoogtepunt van die opvoering, en vanjaar is daar ’n spesiale engel wat almal se asem wegslaan. Rooipiet is heimlik verlief op haar. Toe sy egter tydens die kleedrepetisie oënskynlik vermoor word en die koperplaatfoto boonop verdwyn, word Rooipiet se kultuurryk tot in die fondamente geskud.

En hiervandaan raak die intrige net méér interessant.

Weerlose meganika is ’n heerlik aweregse roman, sowel ryke verbeeldingsvlug as skerp satire.

Twee gewese speurders word koelbloedig langs 'n plaasdam afgemaai. En Kassie en Rooi moet die moordsaak oorneem by 'n uitgedunde Paarlse speurspan wat al 'n week lank daarmee kleitrap.

Met die ooglopendste aspekte van die ondersoek reeds afgehandel, voel dit vir Kassie of hulle 'n saak erf waarvan die karkas klaar skoon gevreet is. Kassie bevraagteken egter die Paarliete se afleiding dat diefstal die motief vir die moorde was. Wanneer hy en Rooi ander moontlikhede ondersoek, begin dinge doller as kopaf raak.

Geraamtes uit die verlede, 'n oud-lid van die Brixtonse Moord en Roof-eenheid, 'n leier van 'n eens berugte tronkbende, en 'n swendelaar wat die grootste maatskappy-gekonkel sedert Steinhoff orkestreer, sorg vir talle vrae waarvan die Spookeenheid-speurders probeer sin maak. En sit daar dalk iemand anders agter die man wat die sneller getrek het?

Om sake vir Kassie te vererger, beleef hy 'n yslike persoonlike krisis wat hy nie weet hóé om te hanteer of op te los nie.

Thabisa Tswane has it all: a loving and supportive husband, two beautiful children, a house in Joburg’s Northern suburbs. Sure, the handsome and mysterious Zakhele Khumalo is away from home often for a job he can’t talk about, but Thabisa understands how it works in his world. After all, it is her world, too.

Recently promoted to Major at The Eagles, South Africa’s elite crime-fighting unit, she’s been asked to investigate Victor Maseko – South Africa’s wealthiest and most notorious businessman. All his attention seems focused on the construction and launch of The Maseko building, an embarrassingly opulent shrine to himself. But the people in his inner circle have a nasty habit of dying brutal deaths… And when Maseko’s wife Zibu is shot in Thabisa’s presence, Major Tswane knows she’s caught up in the middle of a web she has yet to untangle.

There are days when the village of Nguni Intile, famous for its intricate beadwork and home of Thabisa’s grandfather, Chief Solenkosi, seems a lifetime away. But will evil follow Thabisa all the way to her childhood home?

"I want to tell you about my Father's murder. I want to tell you who killed him and why. This is the story of my life. And the story of your life and your world too, as you will see."

Nico Storm and his father drive across a desolate South Africa, constantly alert for feral dogs, motorcycle gangs, nuclear contamination. They are among the few survivors of a virus that has killed most of the world's population.

Young as he is, Nico realises that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector. But Willem Storm, though not a fighter, is a man with a vision. He is searching for a place that can become a refuge, a beacon of light and hope in a dark and hopeless world, a community that survivors will rebuild from the ruins. And so Amanzi is born.

Fever is the epic, searing story of a group of people determined to carve a city out of chaos.

Polisievrou Erica van der Linde het die perfekte manier om te sorg dat mense in die getuiebeskermingsprogram in Kaapstad versteek bly. Sy vermoor hulle. En wanneer die gewese kriminele oorgaan van ’n lewe van misdaad na dié van versteekte staatsgetuies, is daar niemand wat na hulle soek nie. Maar dan kry sy opdrag om Daniël Enslin te versteek, en so ’n getuie het sy nog nooit teëgekom nie.

En skielik is dit vir Erica ook ’n taak van lewe en dood, want nou ken Daniël haar geheim.

Wenner van die eerste KykNET-Rapport Boekprys in die Film-kategorie, nou tot rolprent verwerk.

When rising defence lawyer Chelsea Turner takes on a high-profile murder case, she expects a challenging trial. What she doesn’t expect is to discover that her client, the successful businessman Joel Radebe, has a haunting link to her own childhood tragedy - a politically motivated bombing in 1988 which radically changed the course of her life. Struggling with a deep personal conflict, Chelsea steps back from leading the defence, but her instincts tell her there’s more to the case than meets the eye.

Her colleague, Kaylin Adams, takes over the lead, unaware that she too is more connected to the past than she realises. As the two women unravel the threads of the present-day murder, they are forced to confront buried histories, shifting loyalties, and the murky line between justice and revenge. The case against Radebe appears strong - but no weapon has been found, the evidence is circumstantial, and witnesses seem compromised. As new truths surface and alliances are tested, the defence team begins to suspect a sinister manipulation at play.

Set thirty years after the end of apartheid, Legally Blind explores the shadows that linger long after political conflict ends. Can justice ever be truly impartial? What do we owe the past - and each other - in our search for the truth?

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.

The CIA have approached IA3 with a strange request; the participation of an assassin in a covert operation in the USA.

How does a rogue US Senator feature in the plot and how are the Russians involved? Will the CIA double cross Bataleur and how is the FBI involved?

The poaching of the abalone in South Africa has reached alarming proportions in recent years. Unscrupulous criminals rape the sea beds in search of the delicacy.

Bataleur and the IA3 team expose and do battle with an evil Chinese gang and with local gangsters. Bataleur and the team need all of their skills to undertake the operation and ensure that they are in control.

Bennie Griessel is eerste op die toneel: ’n bloedbad in ’n luukse gastehuis op ’n Franschhoek-wynplaas. Drie slagoffers van ’n geheimsinnige, blitsige, meedoënlose huurmoordenaar genaamd Die Kobra. Kan Griessel hom keer voordat hy weer toeslaan? Want daar was boonop ’n ontvoering . . . Ene Paul Anthony Morris, Britse burger met ’n splinternuwe paspoort. Maar wie is dié man werklik?

Voeg hierby ’n grypdief wat onwetend iets steel wat aan Die Kobra behoort, en ’n intelligensiediens wat hul neus in Griessel se sake wil steek.

Spanning en intrige uit die boonste rakke, soos net Suid-Afrika se misdaadverhaal-koning dit kan skryf!

Universiteit van Johannesburg Debuutprys vir Skeppende Skryfkuns (2010) M-Net Letterkundetoekenning in die rolprentkategorie (2010) Inspekteur Albertus Beeslaar het genoeg gehad van die brutaliteit van misdaad in Johannesburg. Hy kom soek rus en vrede op ’n klein dorpie aan die rand van die Kalahari, waar hy ’n nuwe veediefstal-eenheid op die been moet bring. Dan word ’n grusame dubbele moord op ’n plaas gepleeg. Gou kry Beeslaar egter met veel meer as ’n “gewone plaasmoord” te doen. Hy word gekonfronteer met ’n koelbloedige veediefstalsindikaat, Afrika-towerkuns, ’n ou grondeis in ‘n plofbare politieke klimaat wat deur ’n regse wit vigilantegroep uitgebuit word. En dit is maar net die begin. ’n Naelkou-misdaadroman met ’n nuwe, eg Suid-Afrikaanse speurheld. Plaasmoord is in Nederlands vertaal as Moord op Huilwater.

Cape Town is experiencing a wave of skilfully executed cash-in-transit heists, and Captain Eberard Februarie is brought in to crack the case. There are few leads to go on, and the gang always seems to be a step ahead of the cops, raising suspicions of a leak from the inside.

Andile Xaba lives a double life, leading a crew of heist men and hiding his activities from his girlfriend and mother. He knows the police are on his tail, and when a job goes wrong, fault lines start emerging in the gang. They cannot afford any more mistakes.

In this explosive new crime thriller, Andrew Brown pits his haunted detective against the most elusive enemy he has yet faced. While dealing with his own demons, problems with his ex-wife and daughter, and a colonel with a history in the apartheid police force, Eberard moves ever closer to a dramatic showdown.

The Heist Men is a thrilling, poignant triumph, once again revealing Andrew Brown as a vital voice on the local crime fiction scene. A novel sure to satisfy diehard fans and win plenty of new ones.

’n Koelbloedige moord by die Kaapse Waterfront. Wat dalk verband hou met geheimsinnige briewe wat geskorste luitenante Bennie Griessel en Vaughn Cupido ontvang het.

Maar eers moet Bennie-hulle op Stellenbosch soek na ’n verdwene student, en die spoor vat van die eiendomsagent wat die kooptransaksie van Donkerdrif, korporatiewe swendelaar Jasper Boonstra se peperduur wynplaas, behartig het.

Stadigaan besef die speurders al hul ondersoeke het ’n gemene deler: die donkerste drif, gierigheid.

A taut and unsparing novel about a community plagued by violence, drugs, corruption, and prejudice—but where love and justice prevail.

The unidentifiable remains of a body are discovered in a field in Shadow Heights, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. Ley, the youngest detective at her precinct, is assigned the case. Soon after, Ley receives a phone call saying that Carl, a friend struggling with a meth addiction, has gone missing after being linked to the Drug King of Shadow Heights. Meanwhile, a local church group believe they are cleansing the area by burning sinners, starting with homosexuals.

The search for Carl leads the reader through the vibrant lives of the residents of Shadow Heights to experience the problems plaguing the neighbourhood but also to feel the love and acceptance found among friends and family in the shadows of everyday life. A pioneering work of fiction in which the dispossessed tell their own stories, In the Shadows is a haunting yet hopeful novel that wrestles with the demons of a community where lives intersect through ruthless brutality, but the bonds between people lead to justice being done.

Look closely around you. Have you ever asked yourself what happens to all the girls who are in the system?

Girls that are orphans…
The boys…
The mothers in shelters…
All the battered women…
The downfall of the most powerful…

I’m leaving the agenda BARE for those who seek to find it. I have a story for you. No mercy…

Back like I never left!

Tim Morgan
Undisclosed location

The savage, senseless murders of children and the youth. It carries Treasure’s story from Book 1 and ends with the fight for life between Paul and Tim Morgan. We look at the disappearance of young people, human trafficking, cults and mental illness in men.

This story is inspired by real-life events and researched data from global social ills and Jackie looks into SA political faces that have sex scandals as part of her research.

Wat is dit wat mense dryf om daardie fyn lyn tussen reg en verkeer doortesteek, welwetende dat hulle in die proses oor die krans gaan ry? Die karakters in Dryfveer is geen uitsondering nie.

'm Mpumalanga Wholesale Supplies spesialis word vermoor en Karl-Jan Schoeman ontbloot bedrog. Beleef die spanning saam met hom, Eileen Wessels wat die rekenaarskelm moet soek en kaptein Marcus Dube wat die kriminele ondersoek na die moord en 'n ontvoering lei.

Voeg hierby ʼn sluimerende romanse, 'n listige vrou wat bedreig voel, en die vonke spat.

She saw what the police missed. The killer won’t make that mistake twice.

Ophelia’s grim profession as a crime scene cleaner in South Africa takes a chilling turn when she uncovers a crucial clue overlooked by the police. As she aids the hunt for a ruthless serial killer targeting women from dating sites, the murderer sets his sights on Ophelia and her daughter.

With the body count rising and a potential romance blurring the lines between suspect and ally, Ophelia must navigate a treacherous web of deceit to protect her family and unmask the culprit.

N Gray’s gripping standalone thriller, “Lady Killer,” explores the dark underbelly of Cape Town’s criminal landscape, delivering a pulse-pounding journey through the eyes of an unlikely heroine.

Ellie McKenna likes her new, quiet life in the countryside. She has time to reflect on the death of her dad, that fateful night at the police roadblock, and to recover from her physical and psychological scars - the result of her last mission. Here in her safe haven she even finds time to help out as church organist. But when they finally - inevitably - track her down, she knows that she'll need to find out who is looking for her, and why. The keenly anticipated sequel to Blindside.

A page turning, gender and genre-bending novel set on the Cape Flats; a story of people who live in a place of violence which involves drugs, corrupt clergy, queerness, friendships - and how these survive in a society that is dysfunctional due to historical social problems; very much a novel of now, the 21st century.

A book that will change the literary landscape of this country.

In A Coat of Many Colours, award-winning author Fred Khumalo presents a patchwork of various vibrant stories befitting the collection’s title.

A boy plays detective, investigating the case of a goat and a coat; a woman takes revenge; an inhlabi bites off more than he can chew; teenage enmity rears its head in a prestigious school for girls; a man is cursed with an ever-growing sexual appetite; and more thoughtful stories with an entertaining zing!

’n Verhaal oor sterk vroue, bendegeweld en aanvaarding.

Niemand spreek haar as Nicola de Wee aan nie. Vir Blackie, die kollega in wie se plek sy telkens bevorder word, is sy “ounooi”; vir Peters, wat onredbaar beenaf op haar is, is sy “kaptein”; haar priestervriendin Sally noem haar “Nic”. Dis net die Khayelitsha-stasiebevelvoerder vir wie sy “kaptein De Wee” heet.

Die nag toe hulle na ’n brandende voertuig uitgeroep word, kon kaptein De Wee nie droom dat dit Thandi se motor is nie, dat sy later haar grusaam verminkte lyk sou moes uitken, en watter verreikende uitwerking die moord op haar vriendekring sou hê nie. Allermins dat sy uiteindelik die ondersoek na die moord sou moes lei.

Maar om die agt moordenaars op te spoor en hul motief te ontrafel, is nie die enigste uitdaging waarvoor Nicci in hierdie ongewoon verweefde misdaadroman taan nie. Sy het self ’n geheim wat sy slim verdoesel. Tot die aand dat sy en Blackie en Peters ’n potjie maak.

Meet Tannie Maria: the loveable writer of recipes in her local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette.

One Sunday morning, as Maria stirs apricot jam, she hears her editor Harriet on the stoep. What Maria doesn't realise is that Harriet is about to deliver a whole basketful of challenges and the first ingredient in two new recipes - recipes for love and murder.

A delicious blend of intrigue, milk tart and friendship, join Tannie Maria in her first investigation. Consider your appetite whetted for a whole new series of mysteries . . .