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.

Bailey Kellerman verlaat Suid-Afrika finaal ná nog ’n liefdesteleurstelling deur haar eerste liefde, Adam. Hulle het ’n aan-en-af-verhouding sedert hulle jong dae, maar Adam verneuk haar gereeld en kom nie tot trou nie. In London trou sy met ’n Fransman, maar word ook deur hom in die steek gelaat.

Terwyl sy oorsee is, word haar ouers wreed in hul huis in Johannesburg tydens ’n rooftog vermoor. Haar broer, Zak, daag woedend by haar huis op en dring daarop aan dat sy terugkom Suid-Afrika toe. Hy verwyt haar ook dat sy nie by die begrafnis was nie, min wetend wat haar omstandighede daardie tyd was.

Sewe maande later is Bailey terug in Suid-Afrika, maar iewers is daar ’n slang in die gras. Hoekom het haar pa nie die kluis tydens die rooftog vir die rowers oopgemaak nie? Wat is in die toegesluite kluis? En gaan Adam weer amok in haar lewe kom maak?

Inspekteur Conrad Dorfling is terug!

Isa Konrad laat die sonderlinge speurder van Karibib, Conrad Dorfling, weer krap waar daar ’n lyk is.

Sommer gou-gou ontdek Dorfling twee goed, nee drie:

- Die lyk is oud. Dit gaan moeite kos om uit te vind wat aangaan.

- Alet Gouws is terug in Karibib. Hoekom weet hy nie, maar hy is nie seker dat dit goeie nuus is nie.

- Die hele polisiestasie weet skynbaar van sy en Alet se afskeidsoen …

Conrad weet nie wie se lyk dit is nie, maar hy is dankbaar dat dit ’n geraamte is, ’n doodloopsaak dus. Hy kan nie twee moorde in twee weke onder sy neus laat gebeur nie.

En boonop krap Alet se teenwoordigheid hom om. Hy het regtig gedink daardie soen was vaarwel. Sy is ’n mooi vrou en Con se vorige huwelik het rampspoedige gevolge gehad ...

Alet het per ongeluk ’n getuie in sy vorige moordsaak geword. Namibië is nie haar wêreld nie, haar lewe en haar man is in Kaapstad.

Hoekom het sy skielik teruggekom Karibib toe? Alet het hom laat glo sy was op pad om van haar man te skei.

Intussen warm sy doodloopsaak op. Binnekort is hulle op soek na ’n tweede lyk, en binne in sy eie lyf bewe die geraamtes in hulle kaste.

When Karl wakes up in a dilapidated house on the outskirts of a South African mining town, he does not know who or where he is, but it’s clear that the townsfolk know him.

Next door lives a ten-year-old boy, Henry. Henry’s father is a violent drug-dealer, his mother helpless in protecting them against him. A gap in the hedge between the two houses allows Henry to slip into Karl’s yard, and Karl and Henry strike up a gentle friendship as glimpses of Karl’s troubled past and his time in the army emerge.

When a drug deal goes wrong, Henry’s mother is killed. His father unceremoniously dumps her body in a disused mineshaft, but a murder investigation ensues after the body is discovered. All is not as it seems, however, and in a powerful climax the real connection between Henry and Karl is revealed.

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 . . .

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.

“Ek is die sondebok. Ek het dit gedoen.” So begin Rooi haring, ’n skreeusnaakse speurverhaal wat afspeel in die Suid-Afrikaanse restaurantbedryf. Hartman Swiegers, restaurantier en topsjef, word tydens die openingsaand van sy restaurant Tydloos vermoor. Sy bevrore liggaam word in ’n yskas gevind, met twee opgerolde harings as enigste leidraad. Watter van die uitsoekgaste is verantwoordelik? Of is die moordenaar dalk een van die kombuispersoneel? ’n Humoristiese whodunnit met verskeie kinkels.

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.

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.

It’s showdown time for Sheemina February in her vendetta against security operative Mace Bishop. And a frazzled Mace Bishop is walking straight into the face-off.

Problem is his partner Pylon Buso’s taken a bullet and a foreigner under their protection's been kidnapped. Bad to worse, the secret service want Mace to steal the weapons system of his only other client. Mace is in the kill zone.

In the final part of Mike Nicol’s Revenge trilogy, the hidden hand of Sheemina February is everywhere. Her finger tightening on the trigger.

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.

When the South African Police Service receive a panicked call for help from the wayward daughter of a former Apartheid-era politician, they discover not only her body but, within it, a message which will take Colonel Vaughn de Vries and Don February of the Special Crimes Unit on a journey through their country - and their country's past - to decipher and resolve.

As organised crime grips South Africa, new players arrive in Cape Town, determined to exploit the poor and hopeless, promising redemption. While other government agencies snap impotently at the small fish, De Vries, linked by a personal connection, resolves to follow this trail to its source and take it down from the top.

As decades old webs of corruption and influence are exposed, and the boundaries of morality blur, his decisions begin to impact on his friends, colleagues and family.

Ruby se pynlikste begeerte is om te weet wie haar pa was – of is. Nóg haar loopbaan as loopplankmodel, nóg haar gesogte modereeks kan vergoed vir hierdie leegheid in haar lewe. Of dit die oorsaak van haar slaaplopery is, weet sy nie maar toe haar ma sterf, neem sy hierdie geheim saam met haar graf toe.

Ná haar ma se begrafnis vlam die hoop egter onverwags op. Sy moet die welmenende raad van die dorp se gehate ou sedeprediker verduur en haar ma se prokureur oorhandig ’n juwelekissie met ’n sleutel aan haar. En toe ’n jeugkennis weer sy verskyning maak, weet Ruby hierdie man bedreig haar goed bewaarde hart. Dit is ook hy wat haar oortuig om elke leidraad wat sy nou gekry het op te volg en nie nee vir ’n antwoord te neem nie.

Maar elke paadjie waarop sy haar begeef, lei na ’n doodloopstraat. Monsters wat mens uit die verlede gaan haal, moes dalk gebly het waar hulle was – die hede is al wat jy eintlik het en jy moet daarmee woeker.

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 . . .

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 . . .

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?

Die Russiese intelligensiedienste beplan om Verwoerd te vermoor.

Hul kontak in Suid-Afrika is Thomas Jacobs, ’n Suid-Afrikaanse anargis wat in die Spaanse Burgeroorlog geveg het. Na die ontnugtering van die oorlog vestig Thomas hom naby Colesberg, ver van politieke knoeiery. Maar die politiek haal hom in.

’n Ou kameraad is na Colesberg oppad, waar hy sy eertydse vriend ’n laaste keer vir die saak wil werf . . .

Wealth insulates Michael Lane and his family from South Africa’s violent crime epidemic until trouble comes from within the high walls of their Cape Town mansion one night when his teenage son commits an act of unspeakable savagery.

Lane, joining his wife in a desperate lie to protect their boy – a lie involving the sacrifice of an innocent – encounters no opposition from cops and courts burdened by chaos and corruption, but he sets in motion a bloody train of revenge and retribution that threatens to destroy him and everything he loves.

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 . . .

Die briljante poligrafis Kalli Krynauw is deel van Special Intelligence Services se span. Hulle is op die spoor van ’n reeksmoordenaar wat tot die uiterste gaan om sy slagoffers te skend voor hy hulle om die lewe bring. Kalli het goeie rede om te vermoed die reeksmoordenaar is deel van SIS se ondersoekspan want hy stuur selfs e-posse om hulle in kennis te stel dat hy op die hoogte van elke beweging van SIS is. Maar wie in die span kan dit wees? Daar is ten minste drie moontlikhede.

En, net so erg, die skisofreen wat ’n obsessie gehad het om Kalli dood te maak, bevind hom glad nie meer permanent in ’n Kaapse inrigting soos sy destyds ingelig is nie. Trouens, hy woon nou in ’n nabygeleë buurt.

Intussen word dit tyd vir Kalli en haar Brink se troue wat nou al hoe lank uitgestel word. Op wat hulle troudag sou wees, het hulle egter allesbehalwe ’n huwelik om te vier ...

Hulle is almal in die land. Van die Chinese triades tot die Russiese mafia. Niemand is egter hier vir die land en die Kaap se natuurskoon nie. Hulle het nie sentiment oor ’n politieke bestel of ’n reënboognasie nie. Geld is die enigste god wat aanbid word.

Toe Ellie McKenna instem om hierdie wêreld te infiltreer, het sy gedink sy weet waarvoor sy haar inlaat. Maar soos haar pa altyd gesê het, die duiwel deel nie visitekaartjies uit nie.

En nou is haar pa nie meer daar nie, en moet sy self besluit wie sy kan vertrou, en waartoe sy in staat is. Haar pa het ook gesê dis ’n job waaruit iemand dikwels nie lewend wegstap nie.

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.

When Detective Persephone (Persy) Jonas is forced to work with retired criminal psychologist Dr Marge Labuschagne to solve the murder of a suspected sex offender, suspicion and distrust threaten to derail the investigation.

Persy believes the killer is her childhood sweetheart, now turned vicious gangster; Marge is sure the answer lies in the victim's shady past. As the women race against time and their own prejudice to hunt the killer, past and present collide, unearthing long buried secrets and lies. As the hunt intensifies they realise they have more in common than they think and are bound in ways they could never have imagined.

Finally faced with a ruthless killer, it seems that the darkest secrets are the ones they are hiding from themselves.

’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.

When her husband Amir abruptly leaves home, film editor Lucinda is left angry and puzzled. Where has Amir gone, and why? In the months before he left, Amir seemed troubled and preoccupied and their marriage had become strained and tense. Now Lucinda worries that his departure could be her fault. Soon afterwards, Lucinda is brutally assaulted in a knife attack, which throws her even more off balance. Searching for composure, she finds a distraction in assisting an older friend, Austrian film-maker Thomas, with a documentary he is making about an old mission station which is allegedly haunted. But the experience becomes an unnerving one for Lucinda who finds Thomas's growing obsession with the story behind his film worrying. As tensions build, so does the underlying mood of constant menace, until Lucinda is confronted with a disturbing revelation. The Cutting Room is a thoughtful and provocative novel of loss and loneliness, longing and guilt, and the different ways in which people can be haunted.