<div>South African detective Benny Griessel has one day to solve two murders in the award winning, #1 bestselling thriller&mdash;&ldquo;This book is great!&rdquo; (Michael Connelly). Winner of the Barry Award for Best Thriller 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&rsquo;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 157 is going to be a tough one . . . A #1 bestseller in South Africa, winner of the 2011 Boeke Prize Fanatics Choice Award, and a finalist for the CWA International Dagger, Thirteen Hours is an atmospheric, intensely gripping novel from &ldquo;a serious writer who richly deserves the international reputation he has built&rdquo; (The Washington Post). &ldquo;Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters. Thirteen Hours proves he should be on everyone&rsquo;s reading list.&rdquo; &mdash;Michael Connelly, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Harry Bosch novels &ldquo;A deft storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Thirteen Hours

<div>A former assassin in post-apartheid South Africa is drawn back into his former profession in this &ldquo;rip-roaring adventure&rdquo; (The Washington Post). Six-foot five-inch Thobela &ldquo;Tiny&rdquo; Mpayipheli was once a feared freedom fighter, trained by the Stasi and KGB. Now, he&rsquo;s a family man working in a garage in post-apartheid South Africa. But when the daughter of one of Tiny&rsquo;s former associates comes to him with a desperate plea, he finds himself returning to his violent former life. With his old friend Johnny being held hostage, Tiny agrees to do whatever it takes to get him back safely. But as he races to the rendezvous point on a stolen BMW motorcycle, Tiny is trailed by several hostile forces, including South Africa&rsquo;s Presidential Intelligence Unit. And when his old training kicks in, his pursuers will learn what kind of man they&rsquo;re up against . . . With books published in twenty languages, Deon Meyer has established himself as one of the best crime writers in the world. In Heart of the Hunter, he has created a thriller &ldquo;good enough to nip at the heels of Le Carr&eacute;&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). &ldquo;This guy is really good. Deon Meyer hooked me with this one right from the start.&rdquo; &mdash;Michael Connelly, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Harry Bosch novels &ldquo;A portrait of spy-world duplicity and a look at South Africa&rsquo;s post-apartheid politics.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;The dark, explosive side of Alexander McCall Smith&rsquo;s Botswana books, as full of love for the vast beauty of the country but also riddled by the anger of South Africa&rsquo;s recent racial and political struggles.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;A brilliant American debut by Afrikaans writer Deon Meyer, uses political intrigue as the fuel for a fast-paced crime thriller.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times-Picayune</div>

Heart of the Hunter

<div>Detective Griessel must solve a cold case to stop a shooter in this thriller from the acclaimed South African author. Two police officers have been shot, and the Cape Town homicide department has received emails from the shooter alleging the cover-up of an unsolved murder. If the cold case isn&rsquo;t reopened immediately, the shooter&rsquo;s carnage will continue. Now Det. Capt. Benny Griessel is out to solve the crime in question: the murder of an ambitious lawyer stabbed to death in her luxury apartment. Unfortunately, there&rsquo;s no apparent motive, forensic evidence, or leads. As Griessel races to piece together an investigation with nothing to go on and his colleague, Capt. Mbali Kaleni, attempts to locate the shooter, a third cop becomes the victim of another barrage of bullets. The shooter is growing bolder by the day, and it&rsquo;s only a matter of time before Griessel ends up in his sights . . . &ldquo;What makes Meyer such a national treasure&mdash;and as good as anyone in the world&mdash;is that even if you have no knowledge or interest in South Africa&rsquo;s history or present, his books are compelling page-turners.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times (London) &ldquo;Superior prose and characterization . . . reminiscent of Peter Lovesey at his twistiest.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Sleekly done crime fiction layered with the cultural complexities of the new South Africa.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

Seven Days

<div>Rhino smugglers, international espionage, and a missing person investigation collide in this &ldquo;powerhouse read&rdquo; from the acclaimed South African author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Lemmer&rsquo;s first rule is &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t get involved.&rdquo; A highly skilled bodyguard with a violent, criminal past, he has settled into a quiet life in Loxton, South Africa. But when a wealthy farmer asks him to help save a pair of rare black rhinos by smuggling them out of Zimbabwe, Lemmer can&rsquo;t say no. Now he&rsquo;s on a small airplane, zipping across the border with a military-grade shotgun at his feet&mdash;sensing that he&rsquo;s about to regret breaking his own rule. Weaving together Lemmer&rsquo;s story with a missing person investigation and the machinations of a top intelligence agency, Trackers is &ldquo;a sprawling, invigorating and socially committed crime novel&rdquo; (The Independent). &ldquo;Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters.&rdquo; &mdash;Michael Connelly, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Harry Bosch novels &ldquo;Meyer&rsquo;s ambition matches his execution in this brilliantly complex stand-alone thriller set in his native South Africa.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;[Meyer is] the king of South African crime fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist, starred review</div>

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<div>This series featuring South African detective Benny Griessel &ldquo;is one of the high points of contemporary crime fiction&rdquo; and &ldquo;Icarus is his best yet&rdquo; (The Guardian). When a plastic-wrapped corpse is found amidst the sand dunes north of Cape Town, it doesn&rsquo;t take long for the police to identify the body as Ernst Richter&mdash;the tech whiz behind MyAlibi, an Internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their affairs. The murder quickly becomes the subject of fierce media speculation, with questions swirling about potential motives and perpetrators. Maybe it was one of MyAlibi&rsquo;s countless jilted spouses, or perhaps an aggrieved client. With a spotlight shining on the investigation, detective Benny Griessel&rsquo;s boss wants him on the case&mdash;and he won&rsquo;t take no for an answer. Before the week is out, a connection to a storied family winery comes to light and adds another layer of tension. But Griessel will have to make sure his suspicions are beyond the shadow of a doubt&mdash;or it might be his head on the chopping block. &ldquo;Meyer . . . has long been hailed as South Africa&rsquo;s greatest crime writer. Icarus places him firmly in the top international league.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times (London) &ldquo;Meyer has perfected structure and pace, reveals and red herrings, chapter beats, plot and subplot but he enriches the story with fascinating detail.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Times &ldquo;A meticulously crafted portrait of modern-day South Africa, Icarus is a spellbinding tour de force.&rdquo; &mdash;New York Journal of Books </div>

Icarus

<div>&ldquo;Deon Meyer&rsquo;s novels explore the complex reality of South Africa . . . they are exciting stories of crime, conflict, and revenge.&rdquo; &mdash;The Miami Herald Blood Safari is a harrowing novel from internationally acclaimed thriller writer Deon Meyer, an expert storyteller whose wickedly fast narratives reveal the heart of his enthralling country. In Blood Safari, Emma le Roux, a beautiful young woman in Cape Town, sees her brother named on the television news as the prime suspect in the killing of four poachers and a witch doctor. But it can&rsquo;t be possible: Emma&rsquo;s brother is supposed to be dead, having disappeared twenty years ago in Kruger National Park. Emma tries to find out more but is attacked and barely escapes. So she hires Lemmer, a personal security expert, and sets out into the country in search of the truth. A complicated man with a dishonorable past, Lemmer just wants to do his job and avoid getting personally involved. But as he and Emma search for answers from the rural police, they encounter racial and political tensions, greed, corruption, and violence unlike anything they have ever known. &ldquo;With Deon Myer you can&rsquo;t go wrong. He&rsquo;s a writer whose work I admire, wait for, and then devour.&rdquo; &mdash;Michael Connelly</div>

Blood Safari

<div>A riveting thriller from the acclaimed &ldquo;King of South African crime&rdquo; and the author of Blood Safari: &ldquo;Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters&rdquo; (Michael Connelly). Deon Meyer is a world-class writer whose page-turning thrillers probe the social and racial complexities of his native country. In Cobra, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed at a guesthouse in the beautiful wine country outside Cape Town. It&rsquo;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 the city, a skilled thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. But he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American woman delivering something very valuable and dangerous to South Africa. The thief not only becomes the target of the deadly hit man known as the Cobra, but unwittingly holds the key to stopping a deadly international threat. It&rsquo;s up to Captain Benny Griessel and his elite investigation team to find the pickpocket and track down the Cobra as the novel hurtles toward a brilliant, heart-stopping finale on the suburban commuter trains. &ldquo;Mr. Meyer, the leading thriller writer in his native country, traffics in crime-novel situations familiar the world over: drunken cops, charming robbers, dangerous murderers, sudden violence&mdash;and sometimes, issues of race.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal</div>

Cobra

<div>From the international bestseller: an Afrikaner boy and his father navigate post-Apocalyptic South Africa&mdash;&ldquo;reminiscent of The Stand and The Passage&rdquo; (Stephen King). Nico Storm and his father, Willem, drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in the world, as far as they know, to have survived a devastating virus that has swept over the planet. In this new reality, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father&rsquo;s protector, even though he is still only a boy. Willem Storm, though not a fighter, is a wise and compassionate man with a vision for a new community that survivors will rebuild from the ruins. And so Amanzi is founded, drawing Storm&rsquo;s &ldquo;homeless and tempest-tost&rdquo;&mdash;starting with Melinda Swanevelder, whom they rescue from brutal thugs; Hennie Fly, with his vital Cessna plane; Beryl Fortuin and her ragtag group of orphans; and Domingo, the man with the tattooed hand. Then Sofia Bergman arrives, the most beautiful girl Nico has ever seen, who changes everything. As the community grows, so do the challenges they face&mdash;not just from the attacks of biker brigands, but also from within. Looking back later in life, Nico recounts the traumatic events that led to the greatest rupture of all&mdash;the murder of the person he loves most. &ldquo;Compelling, action-packed and fraught with emotion . . . bears favourable comparison with landmarks of the genre such as Stephen King&rsquo;s The Stand and Cormac McCarthy&rsquo;s The Road. Simply stunning.&rdquo; &mdash;John Coates, Express (UK) &ldquo;Great stuff.&rdquo; &mdash;Stephen King</div>

Fever

<div>A cold case reaches from Cape Town&rsquo;s shadowy past to bucolic Bordeaux, France, in this thriller by the Barry Award-winning author of Thirteen Hours.When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel&rsquo;s desk, he and his partner Vaughn Cupido, fellow member of the Hawks elite police unit in South Africa, reluctantly set to work reviewing the evidence. Did ex-cop Johnson Johnson simply disappear on the world&rsquo;s most luxurious train line&mdash;or was he murdered? Two fellow travelers might have the answers Griessel and Cupido need, but they too seem to have disappeared, and the few clues that exist suggest a cover-up.Meanwhile, Daniel Darret has settled into a new, quiet life in Bordeaux, far from his revolutionary past in South Africa. But now a man from that past has reappeared. And he wants to commission Daniel&rsquo;s unique skills one more time. As the two storylines come crashing together, Griessel and Cupido are left uncertain of the truth&mdash;and of their own future. A top-notch addition to the acclaimed Benny Griessel series, The Last Hunt makes a brave and powerful statement about the pervasive corruption that has stolen so much from Deon Meyer&rsquo;s native country.&ldquo;Superb&hellip;this may be the breakthrough book this author deserves.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review)</div>

The Last Hunt

<div>A death in South Africa may be tied to a centuries-old painting: &ldquo;Is it O.K. to call a murder mystery &lsquo;lovely&rsquo;? That&rsquo;s the word that comes to mind.&rdquo;&#8213;Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Early on a May morning in the depth of South Africa&rsquo;s winter, a woman&rsquo;s naked body, washed in bleach, is discovered on a stone wall beside a highway some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is referred to Captains Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks&mdash;the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations. The woman is an American named Alicia Lewis, an expert in old Dutch Masters paintings specializing in the recovery of valuable lost art. Discovering the two men she had contacted before coming to South Africa reveals what she was seeking&mdash;a rare painting by Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt&rsquo;s finest student, not seen since it disappeared from Delft in 1654. But how Lewis died, why, and at whose hand shocks even the two veteran detectives, in this compact jewel of a thriller from a multiple award-winning author. &ldquo;Just the thing for a one-sitting read.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;Deon Meyer&rsquo;s Benny Griessel series is one of the high points of contemporary crime fiction.&rdquo;&#8213;Guardian &ldquo;A serious writer who richly deserves the international reputation he has built.&rdquo;&#8213;The Washington Post</div>

The Woman in the Blue Cloak

<div>Disappearances ensnare two South African detectives in a web of corruption in this stunning thriller by the Barry Award&ndash;winning author of The Last Hunt. Assigned to investigate the disappearance of a young university student and brilliant computer programmer detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido hit dead ends. But the trail&mdash;including the death of a fellow police officer&mdash;leads to a series of gun heists and the alarming absence of certain weapons from the police registry, the ramifications of which could be devastating. As Griessel and Cupido intensify their search, real estate agent Sandra Steenberg confronts her own crisis: state corruption has caused the real estate market to crash, exacerbating the dire financial straits facing her family. She puts aside her misgivings to work for a notorious billionaire and playboy, only to have him disappear on her. Now Griessel is forced to juggle between the man&rsquo;s bitter wife, protective lawyer, and Steenberg, the last person to see him alive. With propulsive and intricate plotting, sharp prose, and an ending that takes one&rsquo;s breath away just when the dust seems to have settled, The Dark Flood spotlights the state capture and corruption that has overtaken the country, lending political weight to a powerful story. Praise for the Benny Griessel series &ldquo;[An] outstanding series.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal &ldquo;Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters.&rdquo; &mdash;Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author &ldquo;The undisputed champion of South African crime. Meyer grabs you by the throat and never lets you go.&rdquo; &mdash;Wilbur Smith, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author</div>

The Dark Flood

<div>From rising South African thriller writer Deon Meyer, a gripping suspense novel about revenge, forgiveness, and the race to catch a trained killer. 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 case has hit the newsstands, and one man has taken it upon himself to stand up for the children of Cape Town. When the accused is found stabbed through the heart by spear, it's only the beginning of a string of bloody murders - and of a dangerous dilemma for detective Griessel. The detective is always just one step behind as someone slays the city's killers. But the paths of Griessel and the avenger collide when a young prostitute lures them both into a dangerous plan - and the two find themselves with a heart-stopping problem that no system of justice could ever make right.</div>

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