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Books > Local Author Showcase > Fiction - adults > Crime
Durban men’s hostels are a relic of the apartheid government used as settlements formery for migrant workers. Over the years they have morphed into dangerous territory where killing, extortion and allied crimes thrive. A local research paper by the Germany-based Global Initiative Against Organised Crime suggests that between March 2014 and January 2019, more than 120 people died as a result of violence perpetrated by hitmen based at Glebelands Hostel in Umlazi, a former ‘township’ in south Durban. The killings have bled beyond the hostel, throughout KZN and even into neighbouring provinces. This is a staggering statistic for a community of around 22 000 people living in a housing complex that covers less than two square kilometres. The paper further reveals that one of Durban’s largest hostel complexes, Glebelands consists of 71 blocks. Accommodation varies from large, very old, dilapidated blocks, to the much smaller, newer family units. Crime is well-embedded here and it is often reported as fact that police and politicians alike also benefit with contract killers and the abundance of hitmen often hired from the bloody hostel. Hitmen are groomed from an early age especially by those in the taxi industry. Blood, Blades and Bullets follows the story of Mazwi Nxumalo, a naïve school dropout teenager from rural Nongoma who is unwittingly recruited into the dark world of Glebelands hostel hitmen. Coming from a poverty-stricken family, the odds are stacked against him. He is also running away from a mysterious man and his goons that he busted executing a man in a local forest. After getting in tune with the ways of the Durban taxi ranks and industry, he is soon trained in shooting, surprisingly by rogue cop friends of his handler, Zenzele. He returns one more time to Nongoma where, in a rage, kills his friend, former schoolmate and striking partner in the local football team after learning he had impregnated his high school sweetheart. Angry at his protégé and fearing that he would soon be out of control, Zenzele decides it’s time for the traditional cleansing and strengthening ceremony, ukuthwala. Mazwi emerges almost invincible from this ritual and rite of passage to become an unstoppable but flawed killing machine. As the bodies pile up, including of those cops investigating his crimes, so is his irrepressible obsession with his doctored bullets and one woman whom his handlers believe will be his Achilles heel.
Hoe kleiner die plek, hoe groter sy geheime
Journalist and public relations maven Lucy Khambule is flying high in her life and career. Her book on convicted serial killer Napoleon Dingiswayo is a bestseller, Lucy is in demand for talks and interviews, and her company is involved in early stage organising for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Then comes the terrifying news that Dingiswayo has escaped from C-Max – or has he, as shortly thereafter Detective Morapedi confirms to Lucy that the charred remains found in a prison pipe shaft, along with a suicide note, are those of Dingiswayo. An official statement from Correctional Services further confirms this. But who is the person stalking her on Facebook? What should Lucy and Detective Morapedi make of the violent and disturbing ‘copycat’ killings happening in eSwatini and the hushed rumours that are swirling around the annual Reed Dance? As Lucy and her events management team work on the historical FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Durban International Convention Centre, events unfold at breakneck speed. Is this the work of an exconvict on a deadly mission or are there other dangers lurking on Lucy’s path? Who can she trust and how can she stay safe?
Journalist Alex Derksen’s new assignment in Tanzania should be easy, but he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the news. It starts when he meets Ranna, a beautiful photographer with something to hide. When an IT billionaire washes up onshore after seasonal flooding, he finds himself at the center of an investigation. Should he listen to his heart and help Ranna hide the bloody trail leading to her?
Skatryk tweelingbroers wat vyf jaar gelede verdwyn het, se geraamtes
word in ’n veld opgediep.
Rocco de Witt se argitekspraktyk in Kaapstad doen goed, hy is verloof aan 'n pragtige vrou en hy woon in 'n droomhuis. Maar nou staan oudmakker Gert Malan voor sy deur . . . en die geweld van destyds kom opnuut Rocco se lewe binne. Sy bestaan ontaard in 'n nagmerrie - tot die onvermydelike konfrontasie wat op hom wag, daar op die plasie Nadraai.
Three girls went into the woods. Only two came back, covered in blood and with no memory of what happened. Or did they? Being fifteen is tough – tougher when you live in a boring-ass small town in 1996. Donna, Rae and Kat keep each other sane with the fervour of teen friendships, zine-making and some amateur sleuthing into the town's most enduring mysteries: a lost gold mine, and why little Ronnie Gaskins burned his parents alive a decade ago. Their hunt will lead them to a hidden cave from which only two of them return alive. As the police investigate, Rae and Donna will have to return to the cave where they discover a secret so shattering that no-one who encounters it will ever be the same.
Ella Neser en Lou Pepler werk weer saam as private ondersoekers. Maar
die dag voor Ella op pad is Brugge toe, daag ’n familielid van Lou se
eks op en smeek hulle om hulp. Liesbet se broer en sy neef is wynboere
wat in Hongarye op ’n wynlandgoed naby Boedapest werk. Maar nou het
hulle verdwyn. Lou moet tog dringend die twee jong boere in een stuk
terugbring.
’n Onskuldige man word in sy motorhuis met ’n jaggeweer doodgeskiet. ’n
Jong vrou se lyk hang aan ’n boomtak diep in die Magaliesberg.
Bennie Griessel en Vaughn Cupido ontvang die blye tyding dat hulle
uiteindelik weer bevorder is tot die rang van kaptein. Maar hul vreugde
is van korte duur. Die vergruisde liggaam van een van Cupido se beste
vriende is gevind onder die motor waaraan hy in sy motorhuis gewerk het
. . . was dit 'n ongeluk, of koelbloedige moord? En op ’n imposante
plaas buite Stellenbosch ontplof ’n woonwa. Onverklaarbaar. Nadat die
vuur geblus is, word ’n liggaam in die wrak gevind . . .
Some secrets can’t be burnt away. Cops are being murdered all over the
city, each falling victim to a designer poison that causes them to
bleed out. Unable to make a breakthrough in the case and with the
bodies piling up, detectives Ruben and Zander recruit counsellor
Melissa to help them. Hoping that her unique insights into the human
psyche might help trigger a discovery, they’re expecting to hunt down
some kind of deranged lunatic. The real murderer, however, is a
devilishly intelligent professor of human physiology, an academic icon
standing on the brink of a groundbreaking discovery. Why is he killing
them? How many more will fall victim to his brilliance? And who’s next?
Hell of a Country is a creative reimagining of a true crime story
from early-1970s South Africa. The novel tells the story of teenager
Lorraine van Niekerk who despises the fact that her boss and lover,
middle-aged André Bekker, won’t leave his wife Sunette and marry her
instead. When Lorraine’s life fatefully intersects that of Alfie
Geemooi, a recent amputee, she comes up with a hell of a plan. Is
murder an adequate price to pay for love?
Op die vooraand van speurder Arrie Dogh se aftrede beland ’n
oënskynlik doodgewone inbraaksaak op sy lessenaar. En wanneer hy begin
ondersoek instel na die inbrekers op Louis Jooste se perdeplaas neffens
Wildernis, besef hy daar skuil ’n slinkse slang in die gras.
Bekende sakeman Peet Hoffman word laatnag in sy studeerkamer
doodgeskiet.
In 1998 was hulle onskuldige tieners. In 2025 is hulle verdagtes.
Die vyf Delportsusters woon saam in een huis. Wanneer die oudste
doodgeskiet word, is daar dus minstens vier verdagtes. Maar mettertyd
kom dit aan die lig dat die slagoffer allermins geliefd was.
Moord-en-roofspeurder Adriaan Kruger moet al sy vernuf inspan om die
skuldige te probeer ontmasker.
Nicci de Wee is weer op die spoor van ’n nuwe booswig … en hierdie keer
is dit persoonlik. Een van haar eie spanlede, Stella, word vermis. Het
sy bloot op die ingewing van die oomblik weggegaan omdat sy ’n
blaaskans van alles en almal nodig gehad het, of is sy ontvoer? Nicci
kan nie die gevoel afskud dat Stella die nuutste slagoffer van die
diaboliese krimineel is wat talentvolle jong vroue in openbare plekke
teiken en hulle oënskynlik in die niet laat verdwyn nie.
In ’n hiernamaals waar die goeies beloon word en skuldiges moet boete
doen, glo hy nie. Almal wat aandadig was, moet in hierdie lewe gestraf
word. Dit gaan haar nie terugbring nie, of hom vryspreek nie, maar dit
is ten minste iets.
‘Outside, in the road, behind what looks like some hastily erected barricades, I see a crowd. Television cameras. Lights. Paparazzi. Press photographers. They’ve materialised out of nowhere. What looks like over a hundred locals and tourists are peering into every car leaving this area. Crowding against the car doors, pushing cameras up against the windows. Jostling. Screaming. Shouting. In all my anxiety, hard- nosed journalist that I’m not, during the hours spent shifting around in the plastic seat in the waiting room I had somehow not understood the enormity of this story.’ As deputy editor of the glamorous FILLE magazine in London, Lisa Lassiter had almost passed up the chance of a weekend on a billionaire’s yacht off the coast of Mykonos. But her best friend Claudia Hemmingway, on her way to becoming one of the hottest movie stars on the planet, could be very persuasive when she wanted something. Not only would they get there by private jet, she’d told Lisa, they would also get to rub shoulders with VIP guests – not least a famous Hollywood film producer. It would be a weekend of fun, sunshine, champagne and partying. And it was all of those things. Until it wasn’t. Lisa has spent ten years trying to get past that weekend. If she has learnt anything, it is that unfinished business and secrets always work their way to the surface. Moving on is one thing; forgetting is another, and forgiving ... well, where to start?
Almal in Jurassic Park op die Kaapse Vlakte ken vir Anwaar ‘Ahnie’ Brandt vandat hy ’n ekstra in die film GangStar was. Maar die baas van die Butcher Boys soek nog meer roem. Nou maak die gang hulle eie movies met hul selfone – movies wat die vrees in mense se oë vasvang. Ahnie se ma, Mary, kyk anderpad en sê sy weet van niks. Sy het mos nog ’n baksteenfoon, sy like nie van tegnologie nie. Nicole Lamb en Derick Delcarme is in matriek en verlief, maar toe Nicole swanger raak, moet Derick die skool verlaat om ’n werk te soek. Hy het geen ander keuse as om by die UML-gang aan te sluit nie, want daar kan hy darem geld maak. Rolanda Fischer wil ’n lewe van weelde soos ’n Cape Kardashian hê en as sy nie ’n celebrity op sosiale media kan word nie, gaan sy vir haar ’n ryk man kry. Maar sy hou ook van ’n bad boy . . . In Kinnes deur Chase Rhys word moeilike waarhede met deernis en humor oopgeskryf.
Are Kassie and Rooi on a suicide mission?
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:
Moord aan boord van die Leonardo
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