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1) Icarus
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 5
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A week before Christmas, a young photographer discovers a plastic-wrapped corpse amidst the sand dunes north of Cape Town. It doesn't take long for the police to identify the body as that of Ernst Richter--the tech whiz founder of Alibi, an Internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their affairs. Assigned to the case is lead detective Benny Griessel--but unfortunately, his two years of sobriety have...
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Language
English
Description
When two South African police officers are murdered by a culprit who threatens to kill an officer every day until a certain cold case is solved, Inspector Benny Griessel struggles to find answers about the death of an ambitious lawyer in spite of no apparent motive or leads.
3) Cobra
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A triple homicide in the picturesque Franschhoek wine valley and the deaths of two security guards who were interrogating a Cape Town pickpocket embroil detective Benny Griessel in an increasingly complex case.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When an antiques dealer in Cape Town if found dead, former police officer Zet van Heerden uses his connection to the world of soldiers and mercenary fighters to learn more about the victim, and in the course of his investigation, Zet learns the man had invented a new life for himself to hide deadly secrets.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the story of the underwater cables that carry the world's information. The sum of human existence-words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses-travels through the tiny fiber optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break at an unfathomable depth. Fennell's literary adventure brings him to the west coast of Africa where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind...
8) Leo
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"In a corrupt South Africa, the criminals are as likely to be in government-or even in the police-as on the streets. Two decorated detectives must put their careers on the line to find the link between three seemingly unrelated homicides in the latest thriller in the #1 internationally bestselling series. Detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido are languishing in Stellenbosch. Run-of-the-mill police work in the leafy university town is a far cry...
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