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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.

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.

After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can't take any more tragedy. So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point - a former friend and detective colleague has shot his wife and two daughters, then killed himself. Benny wants out - out of his job, his home and his relationship with his singer girlfriend, Alexa. He moves into a hotel and starts drinking. Again. But Benny's unique talent is urgently required to help investigate another crime - the high profile murder of Ernst Richter, MD of a new tech startup, Alibi, whose body is discovered buried in the sand dunes north of Cape Town. Alibi is a service that creates false appointments, documents and phone calls to enable people to cheat on their partners. It has made Richter one of the most notorious people in South Africa. Can Benny pull together the strands of his life in time to catch the killer?

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.

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.

AWARD-WINNING CRIME FICTION WITH SOUTH AFRICAN SOULShortlisted for the 2012 CWA International Dagger Award for Best Translated Crime Novel of the Year

After a teenage American tourist has her throat slit in Cape Town, detective Benny Griessel must find her friend, Rachel Anderson, before she meets the same fate; and when he's also put on the case of a murdered music executive, he realizes he must solve both crimes for Rachel to survive

Een journalist in Brazilië ontdekt een manuscript met de levensbeschrijving van de merkwaardige 17e-eeuwse jezuïet en sinoloog Athanasius Kircher.

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

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.