The Western Cape is now an independent country. Successful, safe, murderous.

Lisa Robinson has moved from Durban to Cape Town to be with Grant, the prospective next First Minister of the Good Hope Territory. The GHT is the safest and most prosperous country in the southern hemisphere – at a price.

Citizens contract to be tracked by drones, executions are synchronised to the Noon Gun and only those with qualifications are permitted to vote in the Qualified Franchise system.

Life here is picture-perfect. The Mother City is pristine. Everyone has a job. Tourism is booming. But this shiny new state has decided that Lisa is a problem, and problems here disappear quickly and quietly.

Dinge ontrafel vinnig wanneer iemand speuradjudant Storm van der Merwe se ma voor ’n trein op Paddington-stasie instamp. Storm moet Londen toe, al is sy tot oor haar ore met ’n moordsaak: Beebee Bukelwa Babu, befaamde Suid-Afrikaanse modeontwerper, lê leweloos in ’n luukse hotel op Hermanus.

Hande om Storm te help met die ondersoek ná Beebee se dood is min, want protesaksie lê die dorp lam. Boonop sweep ’n charismatiese profeet die skare op tot ’n histerie.

Storm besef gou nie net haar ma se lewe is in gevaar nie. Sy is ook ’n teiken.

Intussen probeer haar ekskollega, Andreas Moerdyk, nou ’n privaat speurder, om ’n skaars rooi diamant van onskatbare waarde op te spoor.

Van Londen se donker strate tot Antwerpen se diamantebeurs, van Port Nolloth se verlate kuslyn tot Storm se geliefde Hermanus, ontvou die storie in Irna van Zyl se derde misdaadroman teen die pas van ’n sneltrein.

Daar is ’n klop aan die deur. My vinger wil nie verder saamtrek nie. My hart hamer die sekondes in my ore om. Wat sal gebeur as ek die sneller trek?

Johan is negentien en in die weermag. Wanneer die adjudant hom inlig dat hy na Seksie C in die Zambesivallei gestuur word om onreëlmatige ontgroening te ondersoek, pak ’n ongekende opgewondenheid hom beet. Maar dit is korte duur, want Johan besef gou hy is nie opgewasse teen die weermag nie. Ter ontvlugting besoek Johan pasnaweke sy ouer neef Ben in Pretoria. Ben, die rebelse seun van die generaal. Ben wat sy eie oorlog veg.

Die Generaal is ’n onthutsende, oorrompelende en aangrypende verhaal wat die absurditeit van die Grensoorlog en die verwoestende impak daarvan op jong mans se lewens met sensitiwiteit teken.

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.

Leading politician and anti-apartheid campaigner turns the spotlight on to elephant poaching in South Africa. Gripping and pacey this is an epic tale of corruption, collusion and courage.

Having thwarted murderous poachers in The Rhino Conspiracy, the Veteran, Thandi and Mkhize are back in a new fight – battling to save elephant herds from being callously killed for their ivory, whilst trying to block wholesale political corruption and money laundering in contemporary South Africa.

Will diminishing elephant numbers be reversed? Will the forces of good triumph over the vicious looters? Can the annual trillion-dollar money laundering trade by brought to heel by a brave whistle blower?

Peter Hain’s gripping second thriller builds to a dramatic climax, the action switching from wildlife to politics, from bushveld to city, from high finance to poaching. A vivid and gripping journey into the competing worlds of activism and corruption.

The first book in the series following the life and adventures of Dr Sopwith Jones. The story explains why this South African bears such an unusual name, originated from the First World War fighter aircraft, the Sopwith Camel. We learn too how the Joneses, of Welsh heritage, migrated to South Africa and Sopwith’s introduction to the world of flying.

Armed with a doctorate in aeronautical engineering, Sopwith leaves formal employment and develops a solar-powered Cessna 172, which attracts the attention of a corrupt South African government employee, who tries to claim the design for his own benefit. Sopwith flees South Africa rather than loose his dream. The British Government, keen to benefit from his innovation, assists his flight, conveying him to England aboard an aircraft carrier. He barely escapes an attempt to shoot his plane out of the sky en route to the carrier over the Indian Ocean.

On board, he meets the love of his life, Lt Ali Murray, a dashing fighter jet pilot. But once in England and seemingly betrayed by the British Government, the newlyweds are forced to flee to Africa, where extremist guerilla groups, private security companies and the British armed forces pursue them.

Unwittingly exposed by South African Air Force pilot Chuma Sandile and Canadian civil engineering student Jules Demet, and tracked by Britain’s Project Oberon satellite programme, the Jones couple face up their adversaries with courage and passion.

Will they survive against the overwhelming odds? And will Sopwith reap the benefits of his groundbreaking invention?

Vier ouens, ‘n meisie in ‘n kortbroek en ‘n man in ‘n rok – so kan die hoofkarakters in die boek opgesom word.

Husky en sy drie vriende is na hul Graad 12 eindeksamen op pad na ‘n Karooplaas, Blouwater, vir ‘n heerlike vakansie van niksdoen en kuier. Die plaas behoort aan een van die vriende se pa, een van die rykste mense in die land. Langs die pad laai hulle ‘n pragtige, blonde ryloper op, ‘n meisie met ‘n verlede en ‘n .38-rewolwer in haar handsak. Sy aanvaar die uitnodiging om saam op Blouwater te gaan uitspan, min wetend dat sy in doodsgevaar gaan beland.

Op die plaas stuur alles egter op ‘n afgryslike bloedbad af. Onverklaarbare gebeurtenisse, ‘n waansinnige pastoor met sy lang swart gewaad, ‘n kerkie, grafstene, kraaie en ‘n bejaarde gravin met haar haelgeweer skep ‘n atmosfeer van spanning, misterie en Gotiek. Blouwater sal nooit weer dieselfde wees nie.

Jonk en oud sal hierdie spanningsverhaal geniet met ‘n ontknoping aan die einde wat die leser uitasem sal laat.

In Julie 1905 kry Siegfried Bock van die Kaiserliche Landespolizei te kampe met ’n plaaslike boer se grudood, spoke uit sy verlede en ’n Berlynse besoeker wat ’n dodelike wrok koester. Hy worstel met Duits-Suidwes-Afrika se onstuimige politiek en ongenaakbare natuur. As hy geregtigheid wil laat seëvier, moet hy dít, asook strominge in sy eie gemoed, te bowe kom. 'Tweegevreet bied, soos sy voorganger, Die vertes in, spanning én stof tot nadenke.

Kassie het geglo sy speurderdae is getel ná die Medusa-pedofielsaak, en sy hartaanval. Maar ses maande tuis bring perspektief – hy is ’n speurder in murg en been. Terug by die Spookeenheid word hy en kollega Rooi Els dadelik by die diep kant ingegooi: Hulle moet ’n reeksverkragter vastrek – een wat sy slagoffers met ’n brandyster merk. 'Is die skuldige die man wat beskryf word as “’n weerwolf met die sperm van ’n wildehond”? Of lê die antwoord by die spesifieke merk wat hy op sy slagoffers laat?  

Jaco Diehl woon op Hermanus. Hy word getuie van 'n poging tot moord op sy buurvrou, en geleidelik word hy betrek by ander dade van geweld: eers op Hermanus, maar later ook op Somerset-Wes en eindelik in Kaapstad. Sy lewe is aan die disintegreer, en dit lyk nie of hy regtig omgee nie. Die hoofkarakter sleur ons al dieper mee in 'n doolhof. Wie is aanspreeklik vir die moorde, en wat is die waarheid? Of word ook die waarheid 'n storie, 'n verdoeseling wat nes Jaco nie vertrou kan word nie?  

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?

It is 1989, a high point of hope in South Africa’s political history. The nation is abuzz with rumours of Nelson Mandela’s imminent release, the dismantling of guerrilla camps and the possibility of peace.

A band of exiled People’s Army soldiers returns to South Africa. After years in Angola they think the change they have been fighting for is finally about to become a reality. They have been ordered to carry and deliver a sealed trunk to an unspecified destination. It is a mission that makes them a target as different parties set out to separate the men from the trunk and its mysterious contents, setting the stage for several fierce conflicts.

The Texture of Shadows explores a world of hardened guerrilla fighters, corrupt police officers, ex-political prisoners and the victims of abuse of a system of bannings and beatings. But there are also cracks in this steel-edged world that hope, love and beauty can fill as the reader is swept up in the story of Chaplain Nerissa Rodrigues and her fellow soldiers.

This is the 3rd novel featuring protagonist Sopwith Jones, but the first published in South Africa. The first 2 were first published in England, proving distribution in SA difficult. Those two novels will be republished in South Africa in due course.

,P> The President of South Africa survives an attempted assassination. Jones, together with other helpful and colourful characters, the likes of Withers and Dr Njoli become involved in protecting him. In evading the faction responsible for the attempt and who are intent on taking over the government once the President has been disposed of, they take refuge in the Northern Cape.

Their whereabouts are detected, necessitating a move to the Langkloof. A further attempt is made on the President’s life but is thwarted, enabling the President to be returned to Johannesburg, but having to remain in hiding.

Convincing the leader of the faction, Spade Mapeti, that he is supportive of their ideology, Jones manages to meet with him at a game lodge in KZN but is exposed for who he really is.

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.

Kapteins Griessel en Cupido wil van meet af aan nie dié docket hê nie. Die een van Johnson Johnson, oud-poliesman, sy lyk gekry langs die treinspoor anderkant Drie Susters. Want die saak is weke oud. Yskoud. Opgeneuk deur die SAPD, afgedwing op die Valke. Twee passasiers op die wêreld se luuksste trein – waaruit Johnson klaarblyklik gespring het – is spoke. En die arrogante beamptes by die BBP-Beskermingseenheid lieg soos tannetrekkers. Oor kardinale inligting.

Negeduisend kilometer noord leef Daniel Darret sy nuwe, eenvoudige lewe in Bordeaux. Tot Ronnie May opdaag, en hom vra om nog een keer te jag. Sy prooi is die staatsgekaapte president van sy tuisland. Want dít is wat Daniel in die ou dae gedoen het, toe hy ’n laksman vir die Stasi en KGB was.

Kan die Valke die gemors betyds ontrafel om die sluipmoord te keer? Kan Daniel die meedoënlose Russiese agente ontglip wat hom tot elke prys wil elimineer? En gaan Bennie dit alles oorleef om eindelik vir Alexa Barnard te vra om te trou?

It’s the eighties in Johannesburg. Adriana van der Hoon is eighteen years old. Her father, an anti-apartheid activist and Dutch citizen, smuggles money for the ANC using a non-profit trust as a front. But then things change . . . and South Africa’s notorious security police blackmails Adriana into following the money trail from Berlin to Johannesburg.

As political change sweeps across Europe and South Africa, Adriana acquires a new skills set, a lover and an enemy.

More than 25 years later, Adriana is safe and sound, back in Johannesburg. Together with her friend Zenani they run a restaurant called Crow’s Feet. But the past is finally catching up with her, and this time round there is no place to hide.

Circus is the first of Venter’s series to be translated into English. However, each book is a stand-alone novel. The series shares a character cast, with a different character becoming the central storyline in each book.

“Irma Venter is world class.” – Deon Meyer

Bennie moet ’n ring koop. En nie sommer ’n hierjy-ring vir sy Alexa nie. Hoe op aarde moet hy nou dít bekostig?

Terwyl hy wag om te hoor of die bank sal help, word ’n naakte vroueliggaam op Sir Lowryspas gevind. Uitgestal langs die pad; dit lyk soos die werk van ’n reeksmoordenaar. Ongeïdentifiseerd word sy na die staatslykshuis gebring – waar sy bekend word, weens die bleikmiddel waarmee sy geskrop is, as die Gebleikte Lyk.

Kort daarna word sy Bennie en Vaughn se probleem toe daar besef word sy’s ’n buitelander: Alicia Lewis, ’n kunskenner op die spoor van ’n Fabritius-skildery wat kwansuis in die Kaap is – en hý was ’n Rembrandt-leerling van wie bloedweinig werke bekend is. ’n Onbekende Fabritius sou ’n gróót storie in die kunswêreld wees.

Dan vind Lithpel Davids die naam Billy de Palma in Alicia se skootrekenaar, en Vaughn weet dadelik daar’s gróót fout. Want hy ken vir Billy, en Billy is bad, bad news . . .

Who can stop a maniacal Russian and his private army? Surely not a handful of Cape Town gangsters and an Investment Banker/ex-scuba diving instructor. Submerged is an international thriller traversing the pirate-controlled waters off the Horn of Africa, the lethal world of Russian organized crime, the buzzing financial capital London, the Rhino slaughter fields of South Africa, the decadence concealed below the brittle veneer of the beautiful City of Cape Town with its adjacent Cape Flats ganglands and the icy, shark-infested waters of the Atlantic.

During a high-risk scuba dive at one of the deep dive-sites of the Red Sea, Sophia Popova, a beautiful but troubled Russian heiress, fails in her suicide attempt. A love affair develops between her and her rescuer, dive instructor Leon Jacobs, and she arranges that Leon, also a bright economics graduate, joins a major Investment Bank in London. The Bank is owned by Russian billionaire and Sophia’s father, Bogdan Popov, who made it big from political favouritism, corruption and innovative methods of getting rid of competitors. The love-sick and gullible Leon soon starts drowning in the international syndicated crime world of Popov whose motto is: ‘Deal or Death’.

Meanwhile, Franklin Benjamin, a notorious Cape Town gangster, but now retired, tries to live a sober life as a commercial fisherman in a small village off the West Coast of South Africa. But when Franklin’s and Leon’s paths cross and, after a series of shocking events disrupt the peace and quiet of Franklin’s world, he has to make the impossible decision whether to rise up from his hibernation and mobilise his gang.

Will Leon escape with his life from the global-reaching claws of Popov? And where will Sophia find the courage and strength to slay the inner demons ruling her existence?

The enigmatic and darkly compelling Harry O'Connor, better known as Badger, is back in a fourth gripping crime thriller from Amanda Coetzee.

This time the Major Crimes detective must pit his skills and wits and his dedicated team against a deadly sniper whose dark past in Afghanistan and South Africa has come back to haunt the streets of Bedford as they explode in an unprecedented drug war.

The ex-sniper from the British Armed Forces is a suspect in a series of killings and, despite the unusual affinity that Badger feels for the man, he must put aside his own devastating personal loss to track him down - from the rooftops of Bedford to the diamond auctions of the North West province in South Africa - to prevent the body count from climbing any higher.

"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.

An ancient fallen angel is discovered. All hell is about to break loose.

In the year 2233, a mysterious pulsating energy source from Antarctica leads to the discovery of a chained fallen angel deep in the icy trenches of the earth. Micah, a Commander with the Europe, Middle East & Africa Search and Rescue, is feared dead after he plummets down a shaft during this exploratory mission. Lydia refuses to believe that he’s gone and launches her own risky mission with his teammates to retrieve what might be left of the man she loves.

In secret, another dark alliance gathers with their own evil agenda. Demonic entities noticed the discovery of the fallen angel too and plan to use his powers to access an ancient, sealed scroll. Their goal is to reverse Revelation prophecies and bring about their own terrifying version of the apocalypse.

Lydia finds herself in the middle of a treacherous race and an ancient battle that spans back to Day Six of Creation.

Will she find Micah alive? And will they be able to save the world from this supernatural onslaught? Only time will tell if all will be lost in the great divide between good and evil.

Dalk is hy hier. Besig om jou dop te hou.

Dominique is ’n kunstenares en ’n hoogsbetaalde gesellin wat spesialiseer in seksfetisjes. Martin is ’n sielkundige wat bekruipers navors. Hul paaie kruis wanneer Dominique by Martin om hulp aanklop omdat sy agtervolg word. Hulle mag so uiteenlopend wees soos nag en dag, maar albei word geteister deur donker geheime. Martin het syfers nodig om sy angstigheid te beheer, Dominique die vertroosting van haar sekswerk-persona, Courtesan.

Soos Dominique en Martin deur haar lys van klante werk om Die Bekruiper te ontbloot, word die bedreiging al hoe erger. En die tyd al hoe minder.

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.

Stela word aangestel om ’n moeilike tiener tuis te onderrig. Maar Pavo (oftewel, die plek van poue) is nie ’n doodgewone plaas nie. In die plek van ’n plaashuis vind Stela ’n stokou kasteel. Met ’n dwerg as butler, ’n preutse huishoudster wat aandring daarop om almal “Master” en “Juffrou” te noem, ’n Sjinese kok en ’n meester wat van bui verwissel soos die weer, kriewel haar ruggraat.

Boonop hang die kasteel vol skilderye van die vorige mistress wat selfmoord gepleeg het. Stela word toenemend geteister deur nagmerries en die gevoel dat sy dopgehou word. Sy word gewaarsku teen spoke en vermoed iemand krap in haar kamer waar sy gereeld pouvere kry. Loop haar verbeelding met haar weg, of moet sy ag slaan op waarskuwings oor Pavo en sy mense?

Plek van poue is ’n gotiese roman in die tradisie van Victoria Holt.

A dog scavenging in an illegal building site digs up a bone. A human bone. She drags it back to where her mistress lies dead in an abandoned shed, but there are hundreds more. Skeletons which have lain undisturbed for centuries beneath Gallows Hill, where Cape Town's notorious gibbets once stood. In the burial grounds Gallows Hill, investigative journalist and criminal profiler Dr Clare Hart looks into a cold case: the skeleton of a young woman murdered twenty years. At the same time, she is helping a troubled young artist, Sophie Brown, identify a malicious stalker. The two are linked, and both Clare and Sophie are in grave danger. Clare discovers that the young woman’s remains discovered near Gallows Hill are Astrid Brown’s, Sophie’s mother, who has been missing for two decades. Her murderer is now stalking Sophie, and if needs be he will kill again. And again. In fact, he will kill as often as it takes to hide the secret he so neatly buried with Sophie’s mother these last twenty years.