Alex het 'n teorie oor chaos. Waar hy ookal gaan, volg dit hom. Dis hoekom hy joernalis geword het en hom nou in Tanzanie bevind. By 'n troue iewers tussen Dar es Salaam en Arusha ontmoet Alex vir Ranna, 'n vryskutfotograaf met 'n bos swart krulhare, 'n t-hemp wat se Dr. Seuss is altyd reg, en 'n verlede waaroor sy nie praat nie. Alex wat lankal nie meer in Die Liefde glo nie, weet: dit is hoe dit voel. Maar dan haal die chaos hom in. Eers begin dit onophoudelik reen en paaie en dorpies spoel weg. En dan, wanneer die lyk van 'n Amerikaanse IT-biljoener op ’n strand uitspoel, word dit duidelik dat Ranna met rede haar verlede probeer begrawe. Waarom anders stel die polisie skielik in haar belang?

Die derde boek in die Abel-trilogie. Die polisie word ontbied na ’n kamer in die Sleep Inn in Bez Valley. Bloed en hare in die bad dui op ’n slagting, maar daar is geen lyk nie. Wanneer ’n gelooide en onthaarde vel in formalien gevind word, weet Ella Neser sy is weer op Abel Lotz se spoor. Abel bevind hom in Brugge, by sy vriend Ignaz Bouts. Kort voor lank soek hy weer na velle met tatoes vir die omslae van die tien volumes van sy Kosmiese Reise, hierdie keer met die hulp van Ignaz. Hy het twee velle en kort nog agt. Intussen word die lyk van ’n amptenaar van Binnelandse Sake kaal en bevrore langs ’n dam gevind, sy keel afgesny. Dit blyk dat ’n joernalis op sy spoor was, nadat ’n Suid-Afrikaanse paspoort aan die lyk van ’n meesterbrein van Al-Kaïda gevind is.

When Captain Kassie Kasselman of Newlands SAPD starts investigating a missing ex-colleague, it’s quickly clear that more is going on than a simple drug-related disappearance. It somehow seems linked to the kidnapping that has struck his colleague Rooi Els’ wife’s place of work, a curio shop. From the Cape ganglands to Kruger’s rhino poachers, from a grisly smallholding to the glitz of the diplomatic world, Kassie has to feel his way quickly but carefully – or Rooi Els’ wife is fish food. Afrikaans readers have grown to love anti-hero Captain Kassie Kasselman since Rudie van Rensburg’s first crime novel, Slagyster (2013). His unique style of detective story, with a strong focus not only on the investigation but also on the criminals in question, creating a complex and satisfying web of motives and plot, is now available in English for the first time.

From Afghanistan to Johannesburg, from Libya to London, a team of highly trained undercover operatives is engaged in a race against time as terrorists plan an attack on the US Embassy in South Africa.

Martin Stevens, Eleanor Watts, Nombeko Tshivhase and Lukas Shabalala work for the underground agency IA3 under the command of Sid Blackman, Thabo Madonsela and Julius Mafere.

When a child-trafficking ring is exposed this team must enlist the aid of the CIA and the local police services in a dangerous mission to unearth the ring-leaders. But the tentacles of this evil gang extend far beyond the borders of South Africa and the team’s investigations lead them deeper and further than they ever believed they would go.

What is the connection to the gangs of Soweto and how is the nefarious and powerful Imam Abed Al Kumein involved? What is one of the largest investment banks in South Africa’s role and who is the mysterious hacker, Vladimir Al-Masri?

What is the most you would do to halt the malevolent actions of powerful people? How many dots would you join, when they led you into unspeakable horrors and danger?

When Adam’s wife Wendy is murdered, he executes a series of vigilante killings and as a result is invited to join an organised covert operations unit, IA3, rather than face life in prison.

Given a new name and a new identity (and a faked death to boot) Adan adopts the identity of Bataleur and commences his new life as a trained and lethal crime fighter and assassin, working directly for the government. Alongside his new colleagues, he works to take down prominent political players when requested, targeting corrupt businessmen and politicians alike to maintain national security and restore apparent order.

Taking place in South Africa, Inside Out explores crime, corruption, gang culture and politics using multiple narratives and various newspaper clippings to paint a vivid and action-packed story of lawbreaking and violence that is well-concealed from society.

The poaching of rhinoceros for the mythical medicinal qualities of the horns has reached alarming proportions in recet years. The magnificent beasts are facing extinction at the hands of unscrupulous criminals. Bataleur and IA3 together with Edward Brown of the CIA and Willie Engelbrecht of the Serious Crimes Unit work at source in the Kruger Park to expose a rhino poaching and horn smuggling ring.

Issued with a ‘Code 1’ sanction order the group show no mercy to those involved.

How does a mysterious cult feature and could a leading South African business tycoon be involved? Ex-merceneries and crooked rangers lead to a London gangster and his evil and violent family.

Upside Down has a realistic and topical plotline and is packed with excitement and action. Upside Down draws the reader into a better understanding of the scale of the problem and of the dangers exposed.

When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. But all is not as it seems.

An autopsy reveals that, although he’s clearly very old, his internal organs are puzzlingly young. What’s more, an old bullet is lodged in one of his muscles … but where is the entry wound? When the body is stolen from the morgue and a local witch doctor is reported missing, Detective ‘Kubu’ Bengu gets involved. But did the witch doctor take the body to use as part of a ritual? Or was it the American anthropologist who’d befriended the old Bushman? As Kubu and his brilliant young colleague, Detective Samantha Khama, follow the twisting trail through a confusion of rhino-horn smugglers, foreign gangsters and drugs manufacturers, the wider and more dangerous the case seems to grow.

A fresh, new slice of ‘Sunshine Noir’, Dying to Live is a classic tale of greed, corruption and ruthless thuggery, set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, and featuring one of crime fiction’s most endearing and humane heroes.

Dit is die vroeë 1990’s. Ben Brandt duik al jare lank ondergronds onder die Poolse naam Jozeph Brzinski. Maar die tyd het aangebreek dat hy sy ou werk hervat: dié van huurmoordenaar.

In sy lewe voor hy moes onderduik as mynwerker, het hy moorde gepleeg vir wie ook al hom kon betaal. Hierdie keer het die Beweging hom nodig. Hy moet twee teikens by die Wêrelhandelsentrum in Kemptonpark elimineer.

Gerhard Coetzee, topadvokaat met ’n tragiese verlede, is die enigste een wat in sy pad staan.

Athol Fugard is South Africa’s most prominent international playwright. This is his only novel.

Tsotsi has been adopted as the Grade 11 official English novel in South Africa for 2016; a new generation will be exposed to Tsotsi and help it on its way to becoming a modern classic.

Magdaleen Verster probeer die stukke van haar lewe optel na die dood van haar tweelingsuster, Misha. Wanneer sy ’n onwaarskynlike vriendskap smee met haar eksentrieke buurman, die wetenskaplike Darius Achenbach, bevind sy haar in die opwindende maar omstrede wêreld van stamselnavorsing.

Asof Misha haar aksies vanuit die dood rig, vind gematigde Magdaleen dat sy skielik bereid is om groot risiko’s te neem. Sy kan haar suster nie terugbring nie, tog kan sy moontlik ’n verskil aan ander se lewens maak. Wat begin as ’n onbaatsugtige projek, vang haar gou vas in geheime bedrywighede waarvan sy min verstaan. Wie is so angstig om Darius se navorsing te ontspoor? Of wil hulle dit dalk vir hulself toeëien?

Alles kom teen ’n prys. En soms is die prys van een mens se lewe ’n ander mens se dood.

Bloedbroers. 'n Vriendskap en totale vertroue gesmee in Angolese pseudooperasies. Carlos Veiyera, die veteraan met 'n duister, gewelddadige verlede. Tex Texeira, sy talentvolle protégé.

En toe is die oorlog verby. Of is dit?

Hoekom, na jare van donker geheime, het Carlos nou die grens oorgesteek as renosterstroper in Mosambiek? Die gevreesde, onaantasbare Kalingono, dood verklaar na ‘n duister operasie … nou moordend terug?

Militêre Inligting soek antwoorde. En Tex Texeira is die enigste operateur wat dit naby hom kan waag. As hy die skietdood van sy eie vrou kan verwerk. En die gevoel van 'n lokval wat hy net nie kan afskud nie ...

Naomi Mandisa Nel leads a secret life as a vigilante assassin, making sure justice is served where the system has failed to bring criminals to book. It is a life her policeman fiancé knows nothing about.

Now she has been recruited to join a team of operatives on a risky mission to save schoolgirls who have been kidnapped by terrorists in Northern Mozambique. They have a window period of only nine hours to infiltrate the enemy camp deep in the Doente Forest and extract the girls before they are moved and might disappear forever. Before the terrorists grow stronger and succeed in their plan of toppling the government. Meanwhile, Aisha Ezekwesili, one of the abductees, has a daring escape plan. But if she fails and is recaptured, she will surely be killed...

Filled with adventure and suspense, Nine Hours is a novel about courage and justice that will keep you reading with bated breath until the very end.

Sunday. Christmas Eve. There is a break-in at the Stables Estate in Pretoria East. Businessman Lafras van Zyl is left for dead and his family has disappeared without a trace. After six weeks there are still no clues, and Captain AJ Williams has been summoned to solve the case. Alex Derksen and Ranna Abramson are on the trail of Martina Buitendag (17), who went missing in Yeoville. Two crimes. Too many secrets. Nowhere to hide.

Die derde boek in die Abel-rillertrilogie. Die polisie word ontbied na 'n hotelkamer in Johannesburg. Bloed en hare in die bad dui op 'n slagting, maar daar is geen lyk nie. Wanneer 'n gelooide en onthaarde vel gevind word, weet Ella Neser sy is weer op reeksmoordenaar Abel Lotz se spoor. Abel bevind hom in Brugge, en kort voor lank soek hy weer na velle met tatoes vir die omslae van die tien volumes van sy Kosmiese Reise, hierdie keer met Ignaz Bouts se hulp.

Boek een van 'n trilogie.

Op sy kleinhoewe buite Johannesburg bewerk Abel Lotz die velle van klein diertjies om te verruil vir die maskers uit Afrika en tsantsas uit Suid-Amerika wat hy in sy galery in die stad verkoop. Vir sy vyftigste verjaarsdag beplan Abel iets besonders. Hy soek ontwerpe vir die omslae van sy Kosmiese Reise. En hy soek 'n nuwe gesig.

Ella Neser gryp die kans aan om haar eerste moord as ondersoekbeampte te hanteer. Hierdie moord is egter ongewoon.

It’s been a year since Nonhle Ngubane was held hostage on a windswept mountain by two crooked and murderous men. She’s settled into her new job at The Last Outpost Lodge and her greatest concern is whether the man she loves, feels the same way.

While she contemplates matters of the heart, the rhino poaching war continues to escalate and kingpins are partnering with corrupt judges. Her friends, Thomas McKenzie and Senzo Mdletshe, find themselves fighting a daily battle to keep the poachers at bay.

Then Nonhle discovers that leopard populations are also under attack. While their skins are worn with pride as a symbol of power and royalty across the African continent, farmers destroy leopards that threaten their livestock, and big game hunters offer illegal hunts to paying guests.

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.

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.

When the former assassin, Zikhona, wakes up next to a dead body in an affluent Johannesburg suburb, she knows of only one person who can clean up her mess, uncle Zenzele. The incident unravels ghosts of the past, forcing the Z Gang to crawl out of their Mozambican hideout.

It is not only Zikhona’s situation that is intricate but the gang’s wealth back home is threatened by the torching of their taxis. They are also about to lose their millions through the elaborate laundering syndicate of a murderous underworld mobster while also nursing a terminally-ill member.

Zenzele resorts to the only thing he knows best – guns, treachery and dark powers – while unleashing his battle-hardened gang to fend off the police and the underworld mobsters chasing Zikhona hell-bent on forcing her back into her contract-killing past. Her marriage to a flamboyant Nigerian pastor hits the skids.

With fewer friends and desperate to save their millions, Zenzele is forced to tap deep into the reserves of old connections, where loyalties still hold. His knack to keep everyone in his debt reaches its pinnacle. Staying alive would take ingenuity, conniving, outsmarting the SAPS crime intelligence and a Police Minister, desperate to save his political career. However, discovering that their enemies are closer to home than they had thought is the ultimate betrayal.

Ranna Abramson wants to disappear. But she knows she can’t keep running when a former enemy tracks her down in Mumbai with dire news: her onetime lover, journalist Alex Derksen, has disappeared back home in South Africa.

Torn between her desire for him and fear of a homecoming, Ranna knows she’s the only one who can find him. But only two things in South Africa would welcome her—the inside of a cell or the bottom of a grave. There, to the police she’s the prime suspect in three murders. To the press, she’s the Black Widow serial killer.

Despite her instinct to stay away, Ranna makes the journey. But the key to finding Alex lies in her painful past. And to uncover it, she’ll need to unravel a web of secrets tied to a long-forgotten crime.

Even if she finds Alex before it’s too late, Ranna must answer for past sins…or risk losing him forever.

Much-maligned blogger Jacob Lynch, aka Brodie Lomax, has been called many things: Professional douchebag, The king of fratire, Tabloid Maverick, Mr Misogyny, Revenge porn Romeo, That sex-tape guy and Assholepreneur. And now he can add 'Multi-millionaire' to that list. With the renewal of his reality TV show as well as his eight-figure book deal, life is good for New York's most notorious blogger.

But he's suffering from a serious bout of writer's block, and the distractions of endless parties, drugs and meaningless sex are not helping. Trapped within his life of excess, he is teetering on the edge, the next stop: rehab. So Jacob flees the city for an isolated hunting lodge in Alaska where he can focus on getting his manuscript done, once and for all. When the mysterious beautiful Alicia unexpectedly emerges from the icy landscape, he knows he shouldn't invite her in, but pretty young things have always been his greatest weakness.

The next day Jacob wakes up chained to a bed, and that's when things take a turn for the terrifying.

’n Reeksmoordenaar jag by stormweer, en Rooi en Kassie moet hom vastrek. Die Hartedief kom met moord weg, en dan is Kassie se volle aandag ook nie eintlik by die saak nie, want hy is smoorverlief op ’n aanvallige mede-seëlversamelaar. Vlerksleep is nie vir sissies nie. Om sake vir hom en Rooi te vererger word hul baas daarvan verdink dat sy hul ondersoek in die wiele ry, en Kassie moet haar onskuld bewys. Intussen word Kaapse vroue vermoor wanneer daar onweer broei.

Sopwith Jones abandons his solar-powered aircraft after an accident that kills his wife Ali, for a new life as a private investigator in partnership with the beautiful lawyer Zelda Maartens. Together they undertake — with some help from Sopwith’s old friend Withers and his daughter Kelly — a stalled investigation into the murder of a Cape Town husband and wife.

Their enquiries soon land them in the middle of the illegal cigarette and money laundering trade as they earn the ire of Moosa Davids. Davids is the leader of the criminal syndicate, who, with the help of the violent Cobra gang, corrupt government officials, police officers, and business people to do their bidding.

Will Sopwith find love in the aftermath of his beloved Ali’s demise, will he and Zelda survive the attention of the ruthless Davids and the Cobra gang, and will they solve the mystery of the murder of the Constantia couple?

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.

Detectives in pursuit of criminals, a brother desperate to find his wunga-addicted sibling, a search for abducted girls, a quest to be reunited with a long-lost lover – these are just some of the searches that form the basis of the stories in this collection. On a more metaphysical level there are characters seeking some form of faith or purpose. Entertaining tales that keep the reader enthralled with tension and suspense, while reflecting the realities of contemporary South Africa.