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.
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...
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.
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
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, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Cl
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.
The Woman in the Blue Cloak is a brilliant investigation which will thrill and entertain fans of Deon Meyer's much-loved detective Benny Griessel.
