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A South African antiques dealer is murdered with a single bullet from an M-16 assault rifle. The contents of his safe are missing, and the only clues are a scrap of blank paper and the unusual weapon used: a gun that's generally the choice of mercenaries, not burglars. Now ex-cop Zed van Heerden has seven days to fill in the blanks in this dead man's past - a past that appears only to start in 1983.

I'll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet. Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot by a sniper and recovering alcoholic Benny Griessel is ordered to reopen the Sloet case. Hanneke Sloet was a sensual and ambitious lawyer. At the time of her murder she was working on one of the biggest Black Empowerment deals in South African history. She was found dead in her luxury Cape Town apartment.

A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks - not what they were looking for. And a difficult case too, surrounded by mystery, lies and evasion. The body of Johnson Johnson, ex-cop, has been found by the side of a railway line. He appears to have jumped from the world's most luxurious train, and two suspicious characters seen with him have disappeared into thin air.

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.

Lemmer se Eerste Algemene Wet: Moenie betrokke raak nie. Hy pas dit veral toe in sy werk as vryskut-lyfwag by Body Armour, waar hy laag af is op die pryslys, want hy’s die een met die kriminele rekord, die gebrekkige sosiale vaardighede en die baie kort humeur. Wanneer die mooi, ryk Emma le Roux hom huur en begin vertel van onwaarskynlike bedreigings en ’n broer wat sy vas glo ná twintig jaar soos ’n Lasarus uit die dood uit opgestaan het, stof hy ook ’n ander ou Wet af: Moenie klein vroue vertrou nie.

In Thirteen Hours, homicide detective Bennie Griessel struggled to solve the murder of an American girl, find her missing friend, and avoid drinking again. In Seven Days, Griessel is given another nearly impossible task. Two police officers have been shot, and the department has received an email from the shooter alleging a cover-up in a cold case. He threatens more violence until the case is solved. The case in question is the murder of Hanneke Sloet, an ambitious lawyer stabbed to death in her apartment. There's no apparent motive and no leads, just a set of nude photographs and an ex-boyfriend with a rock-solid alibi.

A beautifully written modern-day love story set in Sri Lanka and London. Emma le Roux is convinced she's seen her brother on the news as a suspect in the recent killing of four poachers. But her brother died twenty years ago. Then le Roux hires Lemmer - a professional bodyguard - to watch her back while she seeks answers. But it soon appears that others want the secrets protected at all costs, and will kill if necessary...

’n Moord by die Kaapse Waterfront. Wat dalk skakel 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. En al hul ondersoeke het ’n gemene deler: die donkerste drif, gierigheid.

Some would call Detective Benny Griessel a legend. Others would call him a drunk. He has trodden on too many toes over the years ever to reach the top of the promotion ladder, and now he concentrates on staying sober and mentoring the new generation of crime fighters: mixed race, Xhosa, and Zulu. But when an American backpacker disappears in Capetown, panicked politicians know who to call....

A week before Christmas, a young photographer discovers a plastic-wrapped corpse amid the sand dunes north of Cape Town. The only thing found on the corpse is a dead iPhone, but it doesn't take long for the police to identify the body as that of Ernst Richter - the tech whiz behind MyAlibi, an Internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide affairs.

Benny Griessel is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. That means he needs to buy an engagement ring - and that means he needs a loan. So Benny has a lot on his mind when he is called to a top-priority murder case. A woman's body is discovered, naked and washed in bleach, draped on a wall beside a picturesque road above Cape Town. The identity of the victim is a mystery, as is the reason for her killing. Gradually, Benny and his colleague Vaughn Cupido begin to work out the roots of the 17th century.

An antiques dealer robbed and killed, and the only clues are a scrap of blank paper and the unusual weapon used. Now ex-cop Zatopek "Zed" van Heerden has 14 days in which to fill in the blanks in this dead man's past - a past which only seems to begin in 1983.

Lemmer is a professional bodyguard. Silent, invisible, he never gets involved. Emma le Roux is convinced she's seen her brother on the news as a suspect in the recent killing of four poachers. But her brother is supposed to have died twenty years ago. When le Roux hires Lemmer to watch her back while she goes looking for answers, it becomes clear someone wants to keep them in the dark. And when that someone tries to murder them both, for once in his life Lemmer steps out of the shadows.

At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards killed. It’s clearly a professional job, and the spent shell casings offer a chilling clue: each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, a skilled young thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. One day he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American woman who was delivering valuable and dangerous information.

Ils ont tué mon père. Je les aurai. Après la Fièvre qui a décimé les neuf dixièmes de la race humaine, mon père, Willem Storm, a fondé Amanzi, une nouvelle colonie, et l'a menée du chaos à l'ordre, de l'obscurité à la lumière, de la famine à l'abondance. Je suis Nico Storm, formé par Domingo à l'art de tuer. Je détestais mon père et je le vénérais. Ils l'ont abattu à Witput, dans notre beau Karoo, en bordure de l'ombre effacée d'un cercle d'irrigation. Je vais trouver ses tueurs et je le vengerai. Ce qui suit est mon histoire.

Pour l'ex-combattant de la lutte anti-apartheid Thobela Mpayipheli, retrouver le pays après les années qu'il a passées en Europe est dur. Chômage, misère, perte de l'être cher, il a tout vécu. Mais il lui reste un fils adoptif, qu'il élève avec amour. Hélas, cela aussi lui est enlevé. Douleur, colère, puis désir de vengeance chez quelqu'un qui sait tuer : Thobela se met à abattre tous ceux que la justice accuse de pédophilie.

Milla, mère de famille qui plaque son foyer et rejoint l'Agence de Renseignement Présidentielle au moment où un groupuscule islamiste s'agite de manière préoccupante. L'aventurier Lemmer qui protège le transfert à la frontière du Zimbabwe de deux inestimables rhinos noirs. Lukas Becker, l'archéologue aux prises avec les gangs de la plaine du Cap. L'ex-flic Mat Joubert, devenu détective privé, chargé d'enquêter sur la disparition d'un cadre de l'Atlantic Bus Company.

Countdown in Kapstadt. 5 Uhr 37. Ein Telefonanruf reißt Inspector Griessel aus dem Schlaf. Eine junge Amerikanerin ist ermordet aufgefunden worden, eine andere wird durch die Stadt gejagt, und eine berühmte Sängerin hat offenbar ihren Mann erschossen. Und dann ruft auch noch seine Frau an. Sie will ihn treffen, um ihm zu sagen, wie es mit ihnen weitergehen soll. Bennie Griessel hat dreizehn Stunden, die Morde aufzuklären - und sein Leben wieder in Ordnung zu bringen. Zwei Morde halten die Polizei von Kapstadt in Atem.

Au Cap, Benny Griessel et Vaughn Cupido, de la brigade des Hawks, sont confrontés à un crime déconcertant : le corps d'un ancien membre de leurs services, devenu consultant en protection personnelle, a été balancé par une fenêtre du Rovos, le train le plus luxueux du monde. Le dossier est pourri, rien ne colle et pourtant, en haut lieu, on fait pression sur eux pour qu'ils lâchent l'enquête. À Bordeaux, Daniel Darret, ancien combattant de la branche militaire de l'ANC, mène une vie modeste et clandestine, hanté par la crainte que son passé ne le rattrape.

En ung amerikansk turist er blevet myrdet på åben gade, og hendes rygsæk er blevet stjålet. Hendes veninde er på vild flugt fra morderne og ender med at skjule sig i et tilsyneladende forladt hus højt oppe ad skråninger til Taffelbjerget.