Twee gewese speurders word koelbloedig langs ’n plaasdam afgemaai . . . En Kassie en Rooi moet die moordsaak oorneem by ’n Paarlse speurspan wat al ’n week lank daarmee kleitrap. Kassie bevraagteken die Paarliete se afleiding dat diefstal die motief was. Wanneer hy en Rooi ander moontlikhede ondersoek, begin dinge doller as kopaf raak . . .

Markus en Domingos vlug na die noorde van Mosambiek omdat hulle vrees dat hulle van moord aangekla sal word. Phoebe, ’n joernalis, sit hulle agterna om ’n eksklusiewe onderhoud los te slaan. Maar gou bevind sy haar midde-in ’n botsing tussen gevreesde insurgente, private militêre kontrakteurs en – erger nog – ’n bloeddorstige reeksmoordenaar.

Liela Oloffson het alles wat die meeste mense begeer. Skoonheid, roem, en ’n blink loopbaan as aktrise. Maar dan verdwyn sy een Vrydagnag en die polisie moet die media se hulp inroep om haar te vind. Gesoute misdaadjoernalis Ami Prinsloo volg Liela se spoor soos ’n bloedhond van waar sy laas in Johannesburg gesien is, en selfs verder, tot by haar kinderdae. Kruip Liela weg of is sy gekaap? Of dalk ontvoer? En waaroor het sy en haar verloofde so hewig baklei net voor sy verdwyn het?

Omstrede en skatryk oud-politikus Armand Deysel is vermoor, en Kassie en Rooi het nie minder nie as ses verdagtes. ’n Britse ondersoeker is op die spoor van die waardevolle Doolhof-halssnoer, en ’n platsakman steier telkens terug van die samelewing se dwarsklappe.

Emma reis na Clarens om haar man se as te strooi. Terwyl sy by tante Vera tuisgaan, daag ’n geheimsinnige koevert op waarvan die inhoud Vera angsbevange maak. Dit blyk dat sy jaarliks anoniem só gedreig word voordat daar op iets wat vir haar kosbaar is toegeslaan word. Wie koester ’n wrok teen Vera? Waarom? Sal Emma antwoorde vind voordat die teisteraar se wraak toeneem?

Ek sal elke dag ’n poliesman skiet, tot julle die moordenaar van Hanneke Sloet aankla, lees die dreigbrief aan die SAPS. En dan begin hy hulle afmaai. Bennie Griessel is die een wat die dossier moet heropen. Die saak is 40 dae oud, die spoor is koud. Sewe dae van hel.

Anelia Heese hervertel die rou en soms skokkende stories van Suid-Afrikaanse mans wat in die 1970’s en 1980’s verplig is om weermagdiens te doen. In Diensplig praat van dié mans, baie vir die eerste keer, openhartig oor hul ervaringe. Hulle praat hier eerlik oor onder meer die eerste kontak, die eerste keer toe iemand ’n makker verloor het, hoe sommige “terrie-ore” versamel het, oor patrollies in die townships, en die interne stryd wat dikwels agterna gevolg het.

In die wilde nagte of bedags as die son bloed uit ’n klip wil trek en ’n mens se gedagtes koorsig maal - dan loop waarheid en verdigsel, geskiedenis en toekoms, lewe en dood deurmekaar op Toorberg, erfgrond van die Moolmans. Hiermee moet die magistraat rekening hou wanneer hy die dood kom ondersoek van klein Noag, ’n kind van die weemoed, wat nie heeltemal van dié aarde was nie.

Afgetrede polisieman Jaap Reyneke vra Sarah Fourie, 'n rekenaargenie met 'n kriminele rekord, om die raaisel rondom die dood van sy peetdogter, Janien Steyn, op te los. Janien was op die oog af geliefd, 'n suksesvolle kunstenaar met 'n slag vir besigheid, en op die punt om met haar universiteitsliefde te trou. Was dit selfdood of moord? Waarom is die toneel om haar liggaam so sorgvuldig, amper kunstig, gerangskik? En hoekom is haar rekenaar se geheue voor die tyd so sorgvuldig skoongevee?

Dis 1963, en 'n jong vrou kry werk in 'n boekwinkel in Bloemfontein. En verloor haar hart. Die laaste kanariegeel notaboek is die jongste roman uit die pen van blitsverkoperskrywer Anchien Troskie. Niks is ooit soos dit lyk op die oppervlak nie, besef ’n mens weer met die lees van hierdie aangrypende storie binne 'n storie.

Katrien is 'n student tydens die politieke woelinge en die Voëlvry-toer wat Suid-Afrika in die tagtigerjare tref. En in die verre Pole het 'n jong man pas duur betaal vir sy sin vir geregtigheid.

Three men who have nothing in common are found murdered in Cape Town, and the string of vicious killings pushes the city toward panic. Captain Mat Joubert is left scrambling for answers in a case that might be his last chance to prove that his life's slow spiral will not pull him under.

In Rudie se eerste Kassie Kasselman-roman, Slagyster, ontmoet ons vir Carl Bester, gevalle oudspeurder. In Vloek is Carl terug. Hy kan na SA kom–sy bannelingstatus uitgewis, teen ’n prys. “Ons vergeet jou sondes in ruil vir ’n teenprestasie,” sê sy nuwe werkgewer. Hy moet ’n lykbesaaide saak van internasionale belang help ontrafel. Nou sal hy weer soos ’n volbloedspeurder moet redeneer om dié saak saam met ’n spul rookies op te los.

Maar waarom doen hy dit? Beslis nie net vir die geld nie. 'n Sielkundige, Erika Hamilton, ontmoet hom toevallig. Albei van hulle bied op beroepsvlak verligting van neurose, onvervuldheid en frustrasie - die een op akademiese wyse, die ander met lyflike plesier. Wat gebeur wanneer hulle ontmoet?

’n Nuwe lewe wag op hom. In 1939 bars die oorlogbom in Europa. Drie miljoen kinders word uit London ontruim na veiliger gebiede. Een van hulle is die sesjarige Charles Smith, op pad na ’n onbekende tante van sy pa in ’n klein dorpie in Skotland. By aunty Grace wag ’n nuwe lewe op hom. Aan die anderkant van Europa ruk die Duitse Sesde Leër op teen Rusland. Tussen die manskappe is die vurige majoor Oswald von Stein, Hildegard se stiefseun. Voor hulle wag die Russiese winter, Stalingrad en die krygsgevangenekampe van Siberië. 90 000 word gevange geneem, net sesduisend oorleef.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.

Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.