5h36 : au Cap, une Américaine gravit Lion's Head, paniquée. 5h37: on appelle Benny Griessel et les inspecteurs sous sa tutelle - une fille a été égorgée. 7h02: Alexa Barnard se réveille, encore saoule, à côté du cadavre de son mari. Passé 12 h 57: ça tourne mal pour Griessel et ses hommes. Et à 18 h 37, les affaires sont classées. Treize heures ordinaires pour ces inspecteurs des homicides.
Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards' murder is the snake engraved on the shell casings of the bullets that killed them. Investigating the massacre, Benny Griessel and his team find themselves being drawn into an international conspiracy with shocking implications. It seems it is not just the terrorists and criminals of Britain and South Africa who may fear the Professor's work, but the politicians too. As the body count begins to spiral viciously, Benny must put his new-found love life aside and focus on finding the one person who could give him a break in the case: a teenage pickpocket on the run in the city. But Benny is not the only person hunting for Tyrone Kleinbooi . . . Relentlessly suspenseful, topical, hard-hitting and richly rewarding, COBRA is a superb novel from an author who is acclaimed around the world as a brilliant voice in crime fiction.
Serenata Terpsichore, hoofdpersoon van Li Shriver’s nieuwste roman De weg van de meeste weerstand , is net zestig geworden, heeft in haar leven vele kilometers hardgelopen en gezwommen en talloze buikspieroefeningen gedaan om haar lichaam in conditie te houden. Maar nu zit deze ‘fitgirl’ avant la lettre plotseling thuis met versleten knieën. Ze verwacht steun te vinden bij haar onlangs gepensioneerde echtgenoot Remington, maar die wrijft onbedoeld zout in de wonde door zelf, voor het eerst in zijn zittende leven, aan duursport te gaan doen. Eerst loopt hij een marathon en daarna heeft hij zijn zinnen gezet op een extreme triatlon. Terwijl Remingtons nieuwe obsessie gevaarlijke vormen aanneemt, blijft Serenata letterlijk en figuurlijk achter met haar kapotte knieën, zorgen om haar man en tegelijkertijd een diepe, knagende afgunst.
Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to forget her childhood in Reece, the small town which nearly destroyed her. She's made a new life for herself as a police detective in Heartsdale, a hundred miles away - but nothing could prepare her for the violence which explodes when she is forced to return. A vicious murder leaves a young woman incinerated beyond recognition. And Lena is the only suspect. When Heartsdale police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, Lena's boss, receives word that his detective has been arrested, he has no choice but to go to Lena's aid - taking with him his wife, medical examiner Sara Linton. But soon after their arrival, a second victim is found. The town closes ranks. And both Jeffrey and Sara find themselves entangled in a horrifying underground world of bigotry and rage - a violent world which shocks even them. But can they discover the truth before the killer strikes again? 'No one does American small-town evil more chillingly ... Slaughter tells a dark story that grips and doesn't let go' The Times 'Thoroughly gripping' Daily Mirror 'Beautifully paced, appropriately grisly, and terrifyingly plausible' Time Out Fiction www.rbooks.co.uk www.karinslaughter.com
Dans les environs du Cap, des pluies torrentielles dégagent un cadavre enfoui sous le sable. Celui d'Ernst Richter, fondateur d'un site internet qui fournit des alibis aux époux infidèles... Richter faisait chanter ses clients et était lié à Du Toit, un viticulteur en faillite dont le domaine jouxte la scène du crime. Au coeur des vignobles de Stellenbosch, le capitaine Benny Griessel, plus que jamais tourmenté par ses vieux démons, va devoir faire surgir la vérité...
Milla Strachan, après vingt ans de maltraitance, quitte son mari pour rejoindre la Presidential Intelligence Agency. Elle surveille un groupuscule islamiste qui attend une importante livraison par bateau.
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal.
A police officer is shot dead. The next day, one of his colleagues is as well. Then the South African police receive an email threatening an additional cop killed each day until a cold case is solved. Inspector Benny Griessel is charged with reopening the file on the murder of Hanneke Sloet, an ambitious lawyer stabbed to death in her luxury apartment. There’s no apparent motive and no leads, just a set of nude photographs and a burly ex-boyfriend a rock-solid alibi. Then more policemen are shot and the pressure mounts. Can Bennie solve the case and stay sober? Featuring the fantastic characters from Deon Meyer’s Thirteen Hours , which won the Barry Award for Best Thriller in 2011, Seven Days is another gripping adventure from a masterful writer at the top of his game.
À la Body Armour, société de protection des puissants, les gorilles sont chargés d’intimider les malfaiteurs – les invisibles, qui ne paient pas de mine, étant des gardes du corps bien plus redoutables. Invisible, Lemmer a fait quatre ans de taule pour meurtre et tente de refaire sa vie lorsqu’on lui confie une nouvelle mission : protéger la belle et frêle Emma Le Roux, patronne d’un cabinet de consultants. Il va la voir et écoute son histoire. Elle lui dit avoir vu son frère à la télé. Il est soupçonné d’avoir tué un sorcier et des braconniers dans la province de Mpumalanga et serait en fuite. Seul problème : ce frère est censé être mort depuis longtemps. Emma appelle la police et accepte l’idée qu’il s’agirait d’une erreur. Mais, deux jours plus tard, trois hommes essaient de la tuer. Lemmer, qui la prenait pour une folle, décide de l’aider dans son enquête. Qu’elle lui mente sûrement n’a plus d’importance : lui aussi veut savoir...
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler, calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', arrives at the court of Emperor Akbar with a captivating tale that soon obsesses the imperial capital. He claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, Qara Koz, known for her beauty and rumored sorcery. Captured by an Uzbek warlord and later the Shah of Persia, she ultimately becomes the lover of Argalia, a Florentine soldier serving the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns to Florence with Qara Koz, her presence mesmerizes the city, leading to significant turmoil. The narrative explores a woman's struggle for autonomy in a patriarchal society, intertwining two worlds: the opulent Mughal capital, where Akbar grapples with belief, desire, and familial betrayal, and the sensual Florentine realm, rich with courtesans and humanist thought, where Niccolò Machiavelli learns the harsh realities of power. Despite their geographical distance, these worlds reveal striking similarities, bound by the enchantments of women. The central questions arise: Is Mogor's story genuine? What fate befell the lost princess? And if he is deceitful, what consequences await him?
