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Books > Local Author Showcase > Fiction - adults > Thriller
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.
The gruesome murder of a homeless teenage boy suggests a methodical
serial killer is at work in Walvis Bay, a depressed port, isolated in
the vast sweep of the Namib Desert. Corrupt and claustrophobic, the
shifting population of Walvis Bay consists of transients and vagabonds
– people with no future and no past. When it seems that the serial
killer may be working undetected in this pit of darkness and
desperation, investigative journalist and criminal profiler Dr Clare
Hart is brought in to investigate. Tangled up in her own doomed love
affair, Clare is happy for the distraction – until it becomes clear
that it is really her life at stake.
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.
Bennie Griessel is eerste op die toneel: ’n bloedbad in ’n luukse gastehuis op ’n Franschhoek-wynplaas. Drie slagoffers van ’n geheimsinnige, blitsige, meedoënlose huurmoordenaar genaamd Die Kobra. Kan Griessel hom keer voordat hy weer toeslaan? Want daar was boonop ’n ontvoering . . . Ene Paul Anthony Morris, Britse burger met ’n splinternuwe paspoort. Maar wie is dié man werklik? Voeg hierby ’n grypdief wat onwetend iets steel wat aan Die Kobra behoort, en ’n intelligensiediens wat hul neus in Griessel se sake wil steek. Spanning en intrige uit die boonste rakke, soos net Suid-Afrika se misdaadverhaal-koning dit kan skryf!
Universiteit van Johannesburg Debuutprys vir Skeppende Skryfkuns (2010) M-Net Letterkundetoekenning in die rolprentkategorie (2010) Inspekteur Albertus Beeslaar het genoeg gehad van die brutaliteit van misdaad in Johannesburg. Hy kom soek rus en vrede op ’n klein dorpie aan die rand van die Kalahari, waar hy ’n nuwe veediefstal-eenheid op die been moet bring. Dan word ’n grusame dubbele moord op ’n plaas gepleeg. Gou kry Beeslaar egter met veel meer as ’n “gewone plaasmoord” te doen. Hy word gekonfronteer met ’n koelbloedige veediefstalsindikaat, Afrika-towerkuns, ’n ou grondeis in ‘n plofbare politieke klimaat wat deur ’n regse wit vigilantegroep uitgebuit word. En dit is maar net die begin. ’n Naelkou-misdaadroman met ’n nuwe, eg Suid-Afrikaanse speurheld. Plaasmoord is in Nederlands vertaal as Moord op Huilwater.
’n Koelbloedige moord by die Kaapse Waterfront. Wat dalk verband hou met geheimsinnige briewe wat geskorste luitenante Bennie Griessel en Vaughn Cupido ontvang het. Maar eers moet Bennie-hulle op Stellenbosch soek na ’n verdwene student, en die spoor vat van die eiendomsagent wat die kooptransaksie van Donkerdrif, korporatiewe swendelaar Jasper Boonstra se peperduur wynplaas, behartig het. Stadigaan besef die speurders al hul ondersoeke het ’n gemene deler: die donkerste drif, gierigheid.
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.
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.
Alles voel verkeerd hier ...
Jake Logan knows what he wants to do with the rest of his life, but the bar and restaurant he wants to open on one of the world`s most scenic bays is going to cost some serious cash. So when Frank Palmer, his old Special Forces buddy now with a semi-secret government agency offers him a big money, high risk job, Jake accepts even though he knows that jobs like this only pay well because living through them is hardly a given. Twenty kilos of cocaine and two viscious gangsters in Cape Town mix together in a deadly undercover cocktail where Jake must impersonate a German enforcer. Then things get interesting. A revenge seeking Colombian and a hit man from Honduras throw a wrench in the works while a bodyguard with a personality disorder and a face to match wants Jake dead. Enter Frank`s sexy sister as well as two Russians with a secret of their own and Jake finds himself with nowhere to turn, no one to trust and a long way from making it back alive.
Barry James is detained in a quarantine facility in the blistering heat of the Great Karoo. Here he exists in two worlds: the discordant and unforgiving reality of his incarceration and the lyrical, snowy landscapes of his dreams. He has cut all ties with his previous life, his health is failing, and he has given up all hope. All he has to cling to are the meanderings of his restless mind, the daily round of pills and the journals he reluctantly keeps as testimony to a life once lived. And then there’s an opportunity to escape. But to escape what? And where to? Can there be a life to go back to? Is there still a world out there in the barren wasteland beyond the fence?
Waarheen sal die donker spoor hom lei?
When an emaciated little girl is found on an icy Cape mountainside,
investigative journalist and criminal profiler Dr Clare Hart is baffled
that no one has reported her missing. Where does she come from, who
does she belong to? In another troubling turn of events, a distraught
man approaches Clare to help him locate his granddaughter, a gifted
cellist who has abandoned her music scholarship and been seduced by a
cultish religious community and its charismatic leader. In a race
against time, Clare battles to unravel the two cases which she
discovers are connected in ways too horrifying to fathom.
Die wêreld is nie meer ’n goeie plek nie. Dis maar net hoe dit is. “Ek het jou seun. Moenie die polisie bel nie. As julle alles doen wat ek sê, sal ek hom nie seermaak nie. Ek sal weer bel.” Adjudant Enzo Ariefdien verkies moorde. Dooie slagoffers. Hy wil nie ’n vermiste lewe in sy hande vashou nie, nog minder ’n kind s’n. Maar dis presies wat hy kry en dis boonop ’n ontvoering vir ’n losprys. ’n Hoëprofielsaak met die desperate Amerikaanse ouers aan die een kant en die ambisieuse kaptein Lubambo aan die ander. En almal wil resultate hê. Intussen trek die onderhandelingspan by die gesin se huis in Llandudno in, adjudant Karla Blanckenberg in die rol van primêre onderhandelaar. Uitgelewer aan die ontvoerders se skedule om kontak te maak—en te verbreek—kan sy net wag en dis dan wanneer die handjie met die rooi gaatjie haar bly teister. Die ontvoerders het duidelik die gesin se roetine geken. Maar is die gesin van buite dopgehou? Of van binne? En hoekom klink dit asof daar iets meer persoonlik agter die ontvoering skuil?
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.
Dalk is hy hier. Besig om jou dop te hou.
Haar brein jaag net so vinnig soos haar hart. Dis hy. Die een wat die blomme op haar kar gelos het. Hy het teruggekom. En hierdie keer het hy nie gekom om iets te bring nie, hy het gekom om iets te vat. Vir haar. En nou word Claire Winters iewers in ’n sel van sement gevange gehou. Eers plaas sy haar hoop op haar speurderbroer. Hy weet wie die man is wat haar ontvoer het. Maar nog ’n lang, donker dag eindig met ’n toebroodjie en ’n glas water en Derek kom nie. Claire besef hierdie keer sal sy haarself moet red. Voordat haar verstand heeltemal in die swart van die kelder oplos. Die enigste uitweg is deur haar ontvoerder. Want hy het die kelder se sleutel. Maar net toe sy dink sy begin vordering maak, vind Claire uit waarvoor sy regtig aangehou word.
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.
In the last decade over 6,000 rhinos have been killed in South Africa. Relentless poaching for their horns has led to a catastrophic fall in black rhino numbers. Meanwhile, a corrupt South African government turns a blind eye to the international trade in rhino horn. This is the background to Peter Hain's brilliantly pacey and timely thriller. Battling to defend the dwindling rhino population, a veteran freedom fighter is forced to break his lifetime loyalty to the ANC as he confronts corruption at the very highest level. Hell-bent on catching the poachers and exposing their trade, the veteran and his young 'born free' colleague hatch a plan to install a GPS tracking device inside a replica horn in an attempt to locate its destination. The stakes are high. Can the country's ancient rhino herd be saved from extinction by state-sponsored poaching? Has Mandela's 'rainbow nation' been irretrievably betrayed by political corruption and cronyism?
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.
Hy kan eerlik sê kleintjies hou van hom. Dit laat hom altyd dink dat hy
’n goeie pa sal maak. Die dogtertjie weeg byna niks en hy pluk haar met
gemak tot binne-in sy voertuig. Hy trek dadelik weg, die spartelende
kind oor sy skoot. Sy probeer onder sy greep uit kom, maar hy druk haar
half onder die stuurwiel in.
Klippe, messe en pyle uit ’n kruisboog: Die vreemste – en wreedste –misdaadtoneel in Kaptein Nicci de Wee se loopbaan. Dan moet sy en haar nuwe taakspan boonop bontstaan om saam met die nimlike Blackie Swart ’n internasionale insident te voorkom. Ook op haar lessenaar: die dood van twee jong meisies. En die angswekkende vermoede dat al hierdie sake met mekaar verband hou. Met soveel kinkels in die kabel soos dooies in die staatslykhuis, moet Nicci-hulle alles tot hul beskikking inspan om ’n nuwe hel af te weer: van ’n rekenaarfundi, tot stiletto’s en selfs ’n paar petrolbomme. Gou kom Nicci agter die monsters wat haar lewe en dié van haar kollegas bedreig, is gevaarliker as Ramoth, vlymskerp polisiefotograaf Stella Jansen se mak Komododraak. In Jagter, haar derde Nicci de Wee-riller, draai Bettina Wyngaard al die krane oop.
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.
When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town’s Sea Point
promenade, investigative journalist and criminal profiler Dr Clare Hart
is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are
discovered, Clare is forced to revisit memories of the horrific rape of
her twin sister and the gang ties that bind Cape Town’s crime rings.
Are her investigations into human trafficking really linked to the
murders or is the killer just playing sick games with her?
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