’n Spanningsvolle roman oor ’n man in wie ’n onbekende mag stadig die oorhand kry.

Die verhaal wentel rondom Samuel wat as seun reeds kennis maak met die donker sy van die lewe. Sy inisiasies in die grootmenswêreld (liefde, seks, die “reëls” van die ou Suid-Afrika, joernalistiek), van die 1970’s tot die 1990’s, is vervleg met sy obsessie met die skêrmoordenares Marlene Lehnberg.

’n Boeiende, intrigerende roman – die skrywer kry dit goed reg om die tydsgees en die manier waarop onskuld geleidelik verdwyn oor te dra.

’n Jong, roekelose joernalis ondersoek die moord van ’n regter. Dit lei haar na oud-Recces met griewe, oorlewingskampe, ’n geheime organisasie genaamd Die Beskermers, wraak, intimidasie en verskeie moorde.

Polisievrou Erica van der Linde het die perfekte manier gevind om te verseker dat getuies onder haar bewaring in die getuiebeskermingsprogram in Kaapstad versteek bly. Sy vermoor hulle.

En wanneer die voormalige kriminele oorgaan van ’n lewe van misdaad na diè van versteekte staatsgetuies, is daar niemand wie vir hulle soek nie.

Maar sy’t nog nooit ’n getuie soos Daniel Enslin teëgekom nie.

Paul du Toit het hom in die Verenigde Koninkryk kom vestig nadat hy Suid-Afrika tien jaar tevore onder 'n wolk verlaat het. Nou is hy geskei en middeljarig, verstrengel in 'n vervelige werk en 'n sukkelende verhouding.

Hy aanvaar dus geredelik 'n maklike – of so dink hy – opdrag van 'n ryk Londense finansier wat hom na Suid-Afrika terugneem. Maar die land het verander, en die terrein is verraderlik.

Skielik moet Paul nie net met die skaduwees van sy eie lewe veg nie, maar ook met die versteekte magte wat Suid-Afrika beheer.

Paul du Toit settled in the United Kingdom after leaving under a cloud ten years before. Now he is divorced and middle-aged, and bogged down in a boring job and a floundering relationship.

He therefore readily accepts a straightforward – or so he thinks – assignment from a wealthy London financier that takes him back to South Africa. But the country has changed, and the waters are treacherous.

Suddenly Paul has to battle not only the shadows of his own life, but also the hidden powers that control South Africa.

On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever. Soon she is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that end in a shattering climax, "Wake Up Dead" confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers.

A corrupt cop, a gangbanger, and an ex-marine sitting on three million dollars in stolen cash find themselves entangled in this "cinematic cape town thriller" ("Bookpage").

Reluctant bank robber Jack Burn is on the run after a heist in the United States that left three million dollars missing and one cop dead. Hiding out in Cape Town, South Africa, he is desperate to build a new life for his pregnant wife and young son. But on a tranquil evening in their new suburban neighborhood, they are the victims of a random gangland break-in. Benny Mongrel, an ex-con night watchman, knows who went into Burn's house, and what the American did to them. Burn's actions soon trap them both in a cat-and-mouse game with Rudi "Gatsby" Barnard, a corrupt Afrikaner cop. Once Gatsby smells those missing American millions, the men are drawn into a web of murder and vengeance that builds to an unforgettable conclusion.

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.

Elena ontdek ’n ou kaart in die solder op hul plaas, ’n kaart wat haar Italiaanse oupa as krygsgevangene na Suid-Afrika gebring het. Dis ’n vonds wat kan lei na ’n goudskat wat die diktator Mussolini in oorlogsbunkers weggesteek is.

Wanneer sy die kaart vir haar vriend in Stellenbosch, historikus Ernst, wys, bars alle hel los. In die chaos wat volg, word sý verdink dat sy Ernst vermoor het en moet sy vlug, nie net vir die polisie nie, maar ook die mense wat Ernst vermoor het.

George, ’n vriend van Ernst, word teen sy sin by Elena se vlugtog ingetrek. Maar wanneer sy eie familie se lewens in gevaar kom, moet hy moeilike besluite neem. Laat hy Elena aan haar eie lot oor, of help hy haar om die skat via die Vatikaan – met al sy geheime en intriges – in Italië te gaan soek?

Murder is on the menu.

Detective Storm van der Merwe and Andreas Moerdyk are back in this brand-new thriller by Irna van Zyl, author of Dead in the Water.

Storm now works in Hermanus and during a lunch with her friend at Zebardines, a much-hated food blogger keels over and dies. It turns out that there were deadly mushrooms, death cups, in her food.

Finding out who killed the blogger is Storm’s first priority, but not the only matter requiring her attention: her old colleague, Andreas Moerdyk, quit his job unexpectedly and expects Storm to put him up while he makes a new start in Hermanus.

Amid frantic preparations for Fooddotcom’s prize-giving ceremony that will honour the country’s best chefs, the murderer strikes again, and again.

Storm’s time is running out.

Pretoria, 2057. Dertig jaar ná Johannesburg in ’n spookstad verander het, word die Nuwe Republiek van Suid–Afrika deur die Toekomsparty en ’n Raad van Twaalf regeer. Kel de Jong werk as ’n programmeerder in die Intelligensieburo. Sy geordende lewe word in chaos gedompel wanneer ’n militêre observasiesatelliet ’n jong kind op die verlate N1 tussen Pretoria en Johannesburg ontdek. Op dieselfde dag word In–Grid, die Intelligensieburo se sentrale kunsmatige intelligensie, in ’n aanval vernietig. In chaos wat volg, aktiveer Kel In–Grid se prototipe en ontdek dat dit die herinneringe van Agnes Baumer bevat, ’n vroulike spioen in Duitsland gedurende die Tweede Wêreldoorlog. Met behulp van tydreise ontdek Kel in die verre verlede die waarheid agter die gebeure in sy hede.

Meer as vyf jaar gelede het die gevaarlike David Francke uit aanhouding ontsnap en na Botswana gevlug. Vir sy ma, Klara, troos die hoop dat hy waarskynlik teen dié tyd al dood is haar waar sy in Amerika woon. Maar dan is daar ’n oproep uit Suid-Afrika wat die mat onder Klara se voete uitruk. Kan dit wees dat haar wreedaard van ’n seun ’n halfbroer het waarvan sy nie geweet het nie?

Wanneer die lyk van ’n jong vrou langs die see by Strand gevind word, begin kaptein Beyers van der Rheede en sy span onmiddellik na haar moordenaar soek. Maar toe dogtertjies begin verdwyn, is dit duidelik dat hulle nie hier met ’n groentjie te doen het nie. Is dit dieselfde moordenaar?

Op Coetzersdal word kaptein André Coghran deur die spoke van die verlede gery. Ook hý ontvang ʼn vreemde oproep. Gaan hy uiteindelik vir David vastrek?

Tussendeur op Gordonsbaai kan die jong musikant, Katherina, nie besluit hoekom die aantreklike nutsman, Hechter Stander, se attensies haar kriewelrig maak nie.

Sangomas and cops don’t mix. Usually. But this is Joburg, a metropolis that is equal parts flash and shadow, and where not everything can be easily explained.

Ian Jack, a disillusioned former police officer, teams up with Reshma Patel, a colleague from his old life, to investigate a routine housebreaking gone bad. But when they uncover links to a possible animal poaching and trafficking syndicate, things go from complicated to dangerous to downright evil.

Set against the richly textured backdrop of a livewire African city, this fast-paced thriller offers a disturbing contemporary take on justice and morality. To be read with the lights on.

Mpho Mamela, a young accountant at a coal mine in the Middelburg coalfields of South Africa is killed one night when he gets caught in the rollers of a conveyor belt. He is mangled beyond recognition. There will be an official State enquiry into his death, by the Inspectorate of Mining.

Stephen Wakefield, the in-house lawyer and a director of the company, begins preparing for the enquiry, but he struggles to understand what happened - Mamela should not have been anywhere near the place he was killed. Bit by bit, Stephen’s investigation uncovers a story far removed from a simple workplace accident.

A web of deception and massive fraud is unveiled; fraud perpetrated by a person who publicly insists on high standards of morality and honesty. It becomes clear to Stephen that Mamela had tried to blackmail the guilty party to help his lover, who is in prison for attempting to steal a trifling amount from the mining company. When the killer learns that his actions are about to be exposed, Stephen realises that his own life is now in danger...

Dawid Neethling is ’n suksesvolle psigiater op Stellenbosch met ’n deeltydse pos by die universiteit, ’n knalgeel Porsche en ’n steriele huwelik.  Wanneer die beeldskone musiekstudent Eva Rodriguez sy pasiënt word, kan hy hom nie indink langs watter paadjies sy hom sal laat loop nie. Voor hy sy oë kan uitvee, staan hy in die beskuldigdebank op aanklag van moord. En dan begin onbeheersde kragte uitspeel wat uiteindelik sy éie lewe sal bedreig.

A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks elite police unit - not what they were looking for. And a difficult case, too. The body of Johnson Johnson, ex-cop, has been found beside a railway line. He appears to have jumped from South Africa's - perhaps the world's - most luxurious train, and two suspicious characters seen with him have disappeared into thin air. The regular police have already failed to make progress and others are intent on muddying the waters.

Meanwhile in Bordeaux, Daniel Darret is settled in a new life on a different continent. A quiet life. But his skills as an international hit-man are required one more time, and Daniel is given no choice in the matter. He must hunt again - his prey the corrupt president of his homeland.

Three strands of the same story become entwined in a ferocious race against time - for the Hawks to work out what lies behind the death of Johnson, for Daniel to evade the relentless Russian agents tracking him, for Benny Griessel to survive long enough to take another huge step in his efforts to piece together again the life he nearly destroyed - and finally ask Alexa Bernard to marry him.

The Last Hunt shows one of the great crime writers operating at the peak of his powers. (Released as Prooi in Afrikaans)

“Die naald sink tussen haar oe in en buig. Die blink tandartsspuit van vlekvrye staal tref die skedel hard. Bloed. Sy hand lig weer op ...”

Izak Hugo is ’n gefrustreerde tandarts van Port Elizabeth. Hy haat sy werk en smag na ’n meer vervullende lewe. Snags word hy deur gewelddadige drome geteister. Soos sy onvergenoegdheid opbou, begin hy sporadiese oomblikke van geheueverlies beleef.

Wanneer hy ná so ’n episode sy vriend se verwurgde poedel in sy bakkie ontdek, begin hy sy greep op die werklikheid en homself verloor. Sake vererger wanneer ’n jong bendelid vermoor word en die bende vermoed dat lzak die skuldige is. lzak besluit om Transkei toe te vlug, maar die bloedspoor volg hom.

’n Kaalvuis sielkundige riller deur ’n opwindende nuwe skrywer. ’n Geveg tot die dood toe tussen goed en kwaad, maar die rolverdeling is net so onseker soos die uitslag.

Hoë politici sweer saam om Suid-Afrika in ’n diktatorskap te dompel. Die armes het genoeg gehad en kom in opstand. Die land brand. Mense vir wie Thys Krige omgee, kry seer. Iemand moet daarvoor boet.

Hierdie keer word hy betrek by korrupsie en komplotte op regeringsvlak. ’n Korrupte president speel in die hand van buitelandse moondhede met imperialistiese ambisies wat ’n voet in die deur soek. Sagte kolonisasie, noem mens dit. Staatskaping noem die media dit. Die tentakels daarvan al so diep in die struktuur van mense in sleutelposte dat niemand meer seker is wie betrokke is en wie vertrou kan word nie. In sulke gevalle protesteer mense gewoonlik. Hulle kan byvoorbeeld so aggressief gemaak word dat hulle mekaar begin uitroei. Traangas word gedokter met dwelms wat ten doel het dat mense mekaar te lyf gaan. Grootskaalse chaos maak ’n land onregeerbaar. Dryf die mense se frustrasie tot breekpunt. Sweep hulle teen mekaar op. Maar daar is maniere om hulle stemme stil te kry.

In Krige se stryd het drie vroue deel van sy wêreld geword: sy halfsuster, ’n gestremde IT-spesialis en ’n genie wat die donkerweb met die donkerbewuste in die mens se psige in verband bring. Al drie gaan gebuk onder pyn en trauma, soos Krige, en vir al drie ervaar hy iets wat aan liefde gelykgestel kan word.

“Hy voel die wonderlike pyn wegsak, diep in, dieper, dieper, tot dit sag word en tot rus kom op die koue en harde ding in hom.”

Angelique van Olgen het op veertien al ’n onverskrokke gees. Nie eens ’n wilde seerower verskrik haar nie. Sy is net so ontembaar soos haar vlamrooi hare en sy laat geen man haar hiet en gebied nie. Maar dis moeilik om nie die knie voor die ewe formidabele aristokraat Graaf Dante de Péronne te buig nie. Hy bekoor haar, maak vreemde wilde begeertes in haar wakker en toets haar onskuld. Selfs toe hulle deur omstandighede verplig word om te trou behou Dante sy afstand. Hy gaan die Kaap sonder haar verlaat. Hy is op ’n missie en dit sluit haar nie in nie.

Helena Harmse is 'n Suid-Afrikaner in Londen. Bedags werk sy as sielkundige by 'n inrigting vir versteurdes. Snags is sy in kroee op jag na Engelsmanne, verkieslik getroudes, wat sy optel vir seks. Maar spruit die optrede uit 'n donker geheim wat sy in haar dra? Of hou Helen se bekruiper - 'n geheimsinnige vrou altyd in swart geklee - die sleutel tot haar troebel verlede? Namate Helena se verhaal ontvou en haar desperate e-posse aan haar twee kinders in Suid-Afrika al hewiger raak, ontrafel 'n kraaines van vergrype, liefde en wraak. Anel Heydenrych se Malhuis is 'n uitdagende, eroties-sielkundige riller.

Hierdie verhaal van Leon van Nierop is ’n fenomeen wat oorspronklik die lig gesien het as radiovervolgverhaal (1979), toe ’n roman geword het (1983), daarna ’n televisiereeks (1985) – en nou word dit in Oktober vanjaar uitgereik as rolprent, die eerste “Boere-noir”.

Leon het self die draaiboek geskryf, en dít het hom geïnspireer om weer hierdie roman te skep! Dit is dus ’n totaal nuwe roman wat tot stand gekom het, met dieselfde geliefde karakters as destyds, maar geplaas in die hier-en-nou van hedendaagse Suid-Afrika.

Die mooi jong Sonja Daneel beland in Hazyview in ’n motorongeluk. Sy herwin haar bewussyn, maar ly egter aan geheueverlies. Sy herstel by die skouspelagtige Hotel Njala, en raak betrokke by die intriges en lotgevalle van ’n formidabele familie wie se lewens onlosmaakbaar verbind is aan dié onheilspellende hotel.

Voeg hierby geraamtes uit Sonja se eie verlede wat spoedig hul opwagting begin maak en die tafel is gedek vir ’n heerlike, spannende storie wat lesers nie sal kan neersit nie.

In a place near Mozambique where no one knows the boundary, drought is changing everything.

Tens, then hundreds of people seek refuge in a forgotten outpost where a clinic is run by lonely souls of uncertain training nuns staunchly determined to serve. But the inundation soon becomes too much for them, and there is no help from outside. Within the small community of outcasts a plan takes shape that is as outrageous as it is inspired.

The illegal adventure that follows is a humanitarian act of heroic proportions, yet unsung in the greater world. And in its wake unanswered questions remain: what is it that lies just beyond our reach; why can we not take the final step towards each other?

Bundu is about the people and the animals of Africa at the height of their beauty and the depth of their despair. It is a love story and a meditation on the mystery of our powers and the limitations that we share with our brothers, the animals.

When Rachel’s brother disappears under mysterious circumstances, she must come to terms with his apparent death, though there is no body. She travels to Joburg to support her sister-in-law, Maya, with the memorial – also to escape her stifling life as a wife and mother. Rachel is unsettled when Max, her ex-lover, arrives. Despite poet Sizwe’s efforts to steady her, Rachel reels from grief and longing. Then Rachel, Maya, Max and Sizwe are involved in a confrontation that will change them forever.

Paola Dante is a driven project manager employed by a large multinational information technology corporation who reads war strategy books for relaxation. In general she prefers computers to people with their random uncontrolled emotions. Long ago she made a decision that matters of the heart were inherently messy and should be kept at arm’s distance. But her husband had surprised her; she had no resistance against Daniel. Now she sees herself as a survivor who has successfully moved on from the traumatic events and terrible truth surrounding her husband’s sudden disappearance years before. But the truth is that ever since the night he walked out on their marriage back to his old ways she’s found it hard to get on with normal life.

An unlikely and ill-equipped mother, she stands alone between their adopted daughter Simone and the criminal kingpin who wants the teenage girl for his own ends and has set the savage wolves on her.

To save her daughter - and herself - once and for all, Paola will face her every fear, her every mistake, and the past she thought she’d finally processed and left behind.

What is the cost of giving a gift? What is the cost of receiving one?

At eleven years old, Julian Flint prefers to remain invisible, safe inside the architecture of adults provided by his mother, his uncle and his aunt.But when his mother, Emma, a celebrated sculptor, takes them all on a family holiday to a hotel by the sea, he meets the captivating and irreverent Clare and everything he thought he knew begins to shift – setting off a chain of events that will determine each of their fates.

From the author of The Dream House and The White Room comes Craig Higginson’s most gripping and nuanced novel to date. Moving from the lush beaches of uMhlanga Rocks to the stark midwinter wastes of Johannesburg and the rich and strange coral reefs of Mauritius, this masterfully plotted novel explores the fault lines between loyalty and betrayal, innocence and accountability, blindness and perception, entrapment and flight.

The Book of Gifts dives into the deepest and most hazardous reaches of human consciousness in order to catch the brightest fish.