Een van Deon Meyer se mees geliefde boeke is nou ook te sien as die TV-reeks Devil’s Peak.

“My naam is Bennie Griessel en ek is ’n alkoholis.”

Om sy lewe terug te kry, moet speurder-inspekteur Bennie Griessel eers vir Artemis keer: die vigilante wat die doodstraf teruggebring het, wat besig is om misdaad teen kinders met ’n lang lem en ’n skrikwekkende meedoënloosheid te wreek.En met die media wat skree, die politici wat druk toepas, ’n span onbeholpe jong speurders en verskeie kollegas wat hom in die rug steek, stel Bennie Griessel ’n lokval.

Maar hy het nie rekening gehou met die liefde van ’n sekswerker vir haar kind, die haat van die Sangrenegra-dwelmkartel en sy eie smagting na die helende kragte van die bottel nie.

She wrote for a living. But who wanted her dead?

When bestselling author Annie Morrissey is found dead, her daughter Niamh knows in her gut it's no accident - even if the case needs a good edit.

The village is strangely uneventful. The suspects are suspiciously normal. The leads quickly turn into dead ends… But when Annie's final manuscript lands on the doormat, the pages humming with mystery and suspense, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.

This can't be a coincidence. Because if Niamh learnt anything from her mother's crime fiction, it's that there's no such thing. And that village secrets never stay buried for long…

From the award-winning novelist & screenwriter, How to Kill a Crime Writer is a funny, mind-bending mystery that will stay with you long after the final page.

A mother they will always remember. A legacy they will treasure forever.

Grieving the sudden loss of their beloved mother, five sisters each receive a mysterious letter exactly one month after her death. Felicia Morgan Weston’s message to her daughters reveals an astonishing secret, upending everything they thought they knew.

Widowed at a young age, Felicia devoted herself to raising her young daughters alone. But, unbeknownst to the world and even her own family, she also harbored a breathtaking secret: under the alias Morgan Reed, she became a bestselling thriller writer, whose novels topped the bestseller charts and captivated millions.

As Felicia’s daughters grapple with the startling truth of their mother’s double life, they rediscover the depth and resilience of the love that shaped their lives.

Can their mother's hidden past help them to forge a new path for the future?

When Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronus, helps her brother Zeus to overthrow their tyrannical father, she dreams of ruling at his side.

As they establish their reign on Mount Olympus, Hera suspects that Zeus might be just as ruthless and cruel as the father they betrayed.

She was always born to rule, but must she lose herself in perpetuating this cycle of violence and cruelty? Or can she find a way to forge a better world?

Often portrayed as the jealous wife or the wicked stepmother, this retelling captures the many sides of Hera, vengeful when she needs to be but also compassionate and most importantly, an all-powerful queen to the gods.

Love. Secrets. Second chances.

Nivashni Nair Sukdhev is back with another enchanting story set in the little town of Rally in KwaZulu-Natal.

After walking away from the big city and an international modelling career, Kaavi Archary is beginning to find an inner peace. She is making friends, volunteering in a programme for troubled teenage girls and relishing a fresh start in life. But she has a secret: her estranged husband, Neel.

So when Neel shows up in Rally with divorce papers, Kaavi's life is thrown into chaos. He says he's here to end things — but what he really wants is to win her back. Beneath the heartbreak lies a chemistry that neither of them can resist.

As Kaavi faces the truth about her past and her family, she and Neel must decide if they can trust each other again.

It's Complicated is a heartwarming tale about finding your way home — and discovering the quiet miracle of true love. This is the second book in the Rally romance series and can be read as a stand-alone story.

Deliciously dark, unsettling and utterly addictive, Death of a Bookseller is a rollercoaster of suspense that prompts discussion about the ethics of true crime and who really owns the stories we tell.

Roach - bookseller, loner and true crime obsessive - is not interested in making friends. She has all the company she needs in her serial killer books, murder podcasts and her pet snail, Bleep. That is, until Laura joins the bookshop.

Smelling of roses, with her cute literary tote bags and beautiful poetry, she's everyone's new favourite bookseller. But beneath the shiny veneer, Roach senses a darkness within Laura, the same darkness Roach possesses.

As Roach's curiosity blooms into morbid obsession, it becomes clear that she is prepared to infiltrate Laura's life at any cost.

This paperback edition includes a brand new chapter from Xaden's point of view!

Against all odds, Violet Sorrengail made it through her first year at Basgiath War College, but now, the real training begins. The stakes are higher than ever, and a determination to survive won't be enough this time.

When a powerful new enemy threatens everything she cares about, including the man she loves, Violet must do whatever it takes to keep their secrets safe. One wrong move could have horrifying consequences - and as the web of lies spun by those in charge starts to unravel, nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.

The deadly second year at Basgiath awaits.

In Christian’s own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of reader around the world.

Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty – until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him – past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian’s cold, wounded heart.

Will being with Ana dispel the horrors of his childhood that haunt Christian every night? Or will his dark sexual desires, his compulsion to control, and the self-loathing that fills his soul drive this girl away and destroy the fragile hope she offers him?

In die vroeë 1970’s onderneem die een-en-twintigjarige Jakob Koetaan ’n lewensveranderende reis van die Baai na Kaapstad ̶ ’n stad wat hom sedert sy kinderjare gelok het.

Wanneer ’n toevallige ontmoeting by die OK Bazaars hom saam met PAC-aktiviste in die tronk laat beland, raak Jakob bevriend met Sipho, ’n charismatiese leier wat sy oë oopmaak vir die stryd om vryheid.

Want Jakob wéét hoe dit is om nie vry te wees nie. Sy familie het immers hulle plaas Towerwater weens apartheid se groepsgebiedewet verloor, en hy moes ophou skool gaan om vir sy jonger suster te help sorg.

Maar die prys van ontwaking is swaar. Soos boikotte tot geweld oorgaan, word alles wat Jakob glo oor lojaliteit, liefde en die betekenis van tuiste getoets.

’n Kragtige struggleverhaal deur die oë van ’n jong man wat sy plek tussen sy mense in die stryd om vryheid ontdek.

When FBI profiler Kaely Quinn's mother is diagnosed with cancer, Kaely takes time off work to go to Dark Water, Nebraska, to help her brother care for their mother. Upon her arrival, she learns of a series of fires in the small town, attributed by the fire chief to misuse of space heaters in the frigid winter. But Kaely is skeptical, and a search for a pattern in the locations of the fires bolsters her suspicions.

After yet another blaze devastates a local family, Kaely is certain a serial arsonist is on the loose. Calling upon her partner from St. Louis, Noah Hunter, and her brother's firefighter neighbor who backs Kaely's suspicions, Kaely and her team begin an investigation that swiftly leads them down a twisted path.

When the truth is finally revealed, Kaely finds herself confronting a madman who is determined his last heinous act will be her death.

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…

Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of…

Creighton King is silent, brooding, and hostile. Annika Volkov still has a crush on him. She is everything he is not: bright, lively, and the heart of every party. What Annika doesn’t realize is that behind Creighton’s quiet beauty lies a dark and violent soul.

Creighton knows he can never outrun his past, so he unleashes his pain on others. He never expected to be drawn to the girl who is his complete opposite. But as Annika tries to break through his walls, he finds himself captivated by her especially after he uncovers her wilder side. Now that he’s obsessed, she will never escape him.

Can Annika bring light to Creighton’s darkness, or will he pull her into the shadows with him?

Jayne Ferguson has always been a keeper of secrets, most especially her own . . .

If there’s one thing Jayne Ferguson has learnt in her life, it’s that every blessing comes with a curse. She married the most handsome man on the isle of St Kilda - but he’s a bully. She inherited her mother’s gift of second sight - but only ever forsees her fellow islanders’ deaths. She has learnt to keep to herself, treading in the shadows and shirking the highs for fear of the lows.

When a needless death strikes at the heart of her home, Jayne’s bad marriage becomes worse and she finds solace with an unlikely friend. Glimmers of happiness tantalise her, though there’s no possibility for anything more, especially once word comes of St Kilda’s evacuation.

But as the day draws near, tensions on the island rise. Secrets are being forced to the surface, passions and enmities erupting with equal violence. A man is killed, as Jayne knew he would be, and her closest friends Effie, Mhairi and Flora are each implicated.

On the mainland, the villagers scatter into new lives, hoping distance means refuge. But then Jayne has another of her dreams and she knows the past isn’t done with them yet.

The mystery of St Kilda's residents are all revealed in The Midnight Secret. The Fourth and final book in Karen Swan's sweeping, bestselling Wild Isles series, following on from The Last Summer, The Stolen Hours and The Lost Lover.

The heartbreaking sequel to A Thousand Boy Kisses.

After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread journal her sister left behind.

Seventeen-year-old Cael Woods is angry. One year after losing his older brother his life has spiraled. Once the most promising hockey player in the junior league, Cael can no longer step onto the ice. When his parents sign him up for a trip abroad no part of him wants to go.

As Cael and Savannah embark on a journey they begin to find solace in each other. As they start to heal piece by broken piece, could this be the start of a love they never thought they'd feel again?

A Thousand Broken Pieces is a beautiful and life-affirming novel about grief, love and friendship from the international bestselling phenomenon Tillie Cole

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences…

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.

So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.

So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song--complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.

But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

Since her sister's death, twenty-year-old Paisley Donovan has been treated like delicate glass by her parents. She may share her sister's heart condition, but nothing will stop her from completing her Bucket List, even if it kills her. And it almost does, until Jagger Bateman pulls her from the ocean and breathes more than air into her lungs―he sets her soul on fire.

Jagger is enrolled in the country's toughest flight school. He's wickedly hot, reckless, and perfect for a girl looking to live life to the fullest. Except that Paisley is the commanding general's daughter, and her boyfriend is Jagger's biggest rival. Now Paisley must decide just how much to risk for a guy who makes her heart pound a little too hard.

They're flying through dangerous territory―and one wrong move could make them crash and burn...

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning - and in Kerala, water is everywhere.

At the turn of the century a twelve-year-old girl, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this poignant beginning, the young girl and future matriarch - known as Big Ammachi - will witness unthinkable changes at home and at large over the span of her extraordinary life, full of the joys and trials of love and the struggles of hardship.

A shimmering evocation of a lost India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humour, deep emotion and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

When she answers a call from an old friend, Dr Erin Taylor is catapulted into the drama of decades past.

In 1996, three university students united to investigate the assault of a fellow student, Rina. But Erin and ‘The Furies’, as they called themselves, unwittingly triggered a time bomb. Two decades later, at a reunion lunch, Rina does not arrive. Within hours, Erin is missing as well, fighting for her life.

Past actions and present decisions — her choices will draw blood.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes Tailored Realities, a new short fiction collection including the never-before-published novella Moment Zero.

Spanning the genres of fantasy and science fiction, this collection features stories from beyond the bounds of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe.

Along with the never-before-seen novella 'Moment Zero', Tailored Realities will include 'Snapshot', 'Perfect State', 'Defending Elysium' (a novella set within the world of Skyward), and five other stories that were originally published individually elsewhere - never before collected into one volume, and many never before available in print.

The collection will also include a stunning black-and-white illustration for each story.

Ani FaNelli is the woman who has it all: the glamorous job, the designer wardrobe, the handsome and rich fiance. But behind her sharp edges and meticulously crafted facade lies the darkest of pasts.

When a documentary producer invites Ani to tell her side of the chilling and violent incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Bradley school, she hopes it will be an opportunity to prove how far she's turned her life around since then. She'll even let the production company film her lavish wedding, the final step in her transformation. But as the wedding and filming converge, Ani's past threatens to come back and haunt her. And as her immaculate veneer starts to crack, she is forced to question: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for - or, will it at long last, set Ani free?

Luckiest Girl Alive is an audacious, page-turning debut thriller that will appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins and Jodi Picoult.

Die verteller in Heks vind haar toevlug in sprokies en mites. Terwyl die wêreld die oorlog in Oekraïne op TV-skerms gadeslaan, verdiep sy haar in die mitologie van dié land – ook as skans teen die toenemende vyandelikheid in haar huwelik.

’n Ongeoorloofde verhouding maak ’n besieldheid in haar wakker. Sy beroep haar op dié nuwe krag toe sy van ongerymdhede bewus word by die kosmetiekmaatskappy vir wie sy bemarkingskopie skryf.

Dis tyd om beheer van haar eie verhaal neem.

The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the upcoming action blockbuster Argylle , featuring a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame.

One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special.

Enter Argylle. His life came to a crashing halt as a teenager. Since then he has been treading water, building barriers between himself and the world. Until one moment of compassion and brilliance will bring him to the attention of the most powerful woman in the secret world.

Coffey knows all about Argylle's dark past. She knows it haunts him. But she also knows it may give him the skills to join the team going up against one of the most powerful men in the world. His crash course in espionage will take him from the jungles of Thailand to the boulevards of Monaco, from the monasteries of Mount Athos to a forgotten cavern buried deep in the mountains of Europe.

It is a deathly rollercoaster ride that will either make him - or break him...

Venice. The perfect setting for romance, and for secrets to be shared.

Fen can't believe her luck. A luxury holiday with her beloved grandmother Disa - what could be more delightful? It doesn't cross her mind that she might fall in love. Or that love can bring complications . . .

Jamie can't help it that women always fall for him, rather than for his kind-hearted friend Leon. Nor that only one of them got the looks (that would be Jamie). But how will he feel if the girl he's drawn to only has eyes for Leon?

Disa has a secret. A few weeks ago, an old letter in a file revealed a shocking truth about her late husband. She's come to Venice to find out more.

There's news on the way that will reverberate through all their lives, as Jill Mansell's joyful, heartbreaking new novel takes readers on a roller coaster ride of emotion - and makes us believe in love again.

Wanneer Harry Grimbeek asemskep tussen sy gevaarlike omswerwinge deur Afrika, kom kuier hy by sy geliefde ma in Johannesburg. Gusta is veral na aan sy hart ná sy pa haar vir ’n jonger pop gelos het. Gelukkig weet Harry sy is veilig daar bo in haar luukse penthouse in Ponte Towers, wat sy deel met ’n erfstuk van groot sentimentele waarde: Jong vrou en boek, geskilder in die veertienhonderds deur die Vlaamse meester Petrus Christus.

Teen die tyd dat Harry in OosAfrika opgespoor word, is sy ma al dae lank dood. Het haar eensame lewe inderdaad vir Gusta tot selfdood gedryf, soos gespekuleer word? En wat het van haar kosbare skildery geword wat uit haar woonplek verdwyn het? Van die oomblik dat hy in sy ma se penthouse instap, kry Harry die reuk van ’n groot gekonkel. En die skuldiges sal aan die pen ry, die hele lot van hulle! Nie eens daai parmantige Ella Neser gaan hom keer nie.

Nog ’n hoogtepunt in Chris Karsten se oeuvre. ’n Vermeende moord, ’n vermeende ontvoering . . .

Onheil op Onrus

Iemand speel ’n grusame speletjie op Onrus. ’n Oudonderwyseres word in haar dansateljee vermoor en twee vroue word ontvoer en gemartel.

Kaptein Werner de Wege en adjudant Lisamore Talakase moet ’n legkaart bou om die raaisel op te los, maar die belangrikste stukke speel wegkruipertjie met hulle.

Sal die speurders die moordenaar betyds kan vastrek voor die volgende slagoffer val? En wat het ’n afgetrede onderwyseres, ’n bekende dokter, ’n sukkelende eiendomsagent en ’n boer gemeen?

Wegkruiper, Christelle Wessels se vierde spanningsroman, wys in watter nagmerrie ’n dorp ontaard wanneer die sondes van die verlede ’n gemeenskap inhaal.