"Sleekly done crime fiction layered with the cultural complexities
of the new South Africa." --Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist In Deon
Meyer's Thirteen Hours, which won the Barry Award for Best Thriller
in 2011, Cape Town homicide detective Bennie Griessel struggled to
solve the murder of an American girl, find her missing friend, and
avoid drinking again, all in a single day. In Seven Days, Griessel
is given another nearly impossible task. Two police officers have
been shot, and the department has received emails from the shooter
alleging corruption and a cover up in a cold case. The shooter
quotes scripture and threatens more violence until the cold case is
solved. The case in question is the murder of Hanneke Sloet, an
ambitious lawyer stabbed to death in her luxury apartment. There's
no apparent motive, no leads, and no promising forensic evidence.
There's no sign of a struggle either; the front door to Sloet's
apartment was not damaged, so Griessel is sure she either knew the
killer, or the killer had a key. All in all, the original inspector
seems to have done a thorough job, only to come up empty. The one
piece of evidence that Griessel finds promising is a set of
provocative professional photos of herself that Sloet kept in her
apartment. Perhaps jealous rage was the motive? Sloet's
ex-boyfriend, who works at a vineyard making barrels, had the
strength, the connection, and the access to the right type of
blade, but he has an alibi that checks out. And then, another cop
is shot. Pressure ramps up on Griessel, and on his feisty
colleague, Captain Mbali Kaleni, who is hunting the shooter, trying
desperately to find a connection to Sloet as the number of injured
rise. The emails keep coming, and the shooter reaches out to the
media. And then, as if Griessel's life isn't complicated enough,
his girlfriend Alexa Bernard, a singer who was in Thirteen Hours,
falls off the wagon herself thanks to the pressure of a big
comeback concert. Seven Days is another fantastic novel from Deon
Meyer, one of international crime fiction's stars. He has won major
awards and is gaining new fans here, as his Barry Award and
successful tour for Thirteen Hours can attest. Seven Days is a
completely gripping read, a brilliant amalgam of thriller and
mystery.
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