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(0)Simon Vance
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As morning dawns in Cape Town, Det. Capt. Benny Griessel finds himself facing a difficult day. A South African music executive has been shot dead. An American teenager's body has been found on the street, her throat cut. And her friend Rachel Anderson is somewhere in the city, terrified and alone, but hopefully still alive. For both cases, time is short and media attention is high. And while the homicide detective has been sober for 156 days, day...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
409 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career. From this beginning, Deon Meyer weaves a story of astonishing complexity and suspense, as Inspector Benny Griessel faces off against a dangerous vigilante who has everything on his side, including public sympathy. A gruesome abuse...
3) Seven days
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Deon Meyer's Thirteen Hours won the Barry Award for Best Thriller, one of international crime fiction's most electrifying writers finally began to get the American attention he so richly deserves. With seven novels published in twenty languages (all available on audio from HighBridge), Meyer has set countless hearts racing with gripping stories that mix the violence, politics, natural beauty, and history of his native South Africa. In Thirteen...
4) Cobra
Author
Series
Benny Griessel volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
344 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases 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. Then one day he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the unusual murder of an antiques dealer, former police officer Zet van Heerden struggles to overcome past demons and the uncertain loyalties of people affiliated with the case in order to identify the killer.
6) Icarus
Author
Series
Captain Benny Griessel volume 5
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Benny Griessel takes on a high profile murder case after a young tech wiz and the founder of an Internet service for cheating spouses is discovered dead in Cape Town.