Deon Meyer, Author , trans. from the Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers. Little, Brown $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-93549-4
A hulking black motorcycle-shop janitor named Tiny is the unlikely hero of this frantic, intelligent thriller by a South African crime writer. Tiny (aka Thobela Mpayipheli aka Umzingeli, the Hunter) is a former KGB-trained assassin who plied his...
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Deon Meyer, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-00012-3
South African crime writer Meyer's expertly crafted second thriller (after 2004's Heart of the Hunter
) confirms his place as one of the genre's finest new stylists. Afrikaner Zatopek "Zet" van Heerden, a former cop, is slipping
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Deon Meyer. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (480p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1993-3
Meyer's ambition matches his execution in this brilliantly complex stand-alone thriller set in his native South Africa. In 2009, Janina Mentz, director of the Presidential Intelligence Agency, is disturbed by rumors that her agency, a creation of a...
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Deon Meyer, trans. from the Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2035-9
Superior prose and characterization enable Meyer to make the most of a familiar plot device in his third crime thriller with self-loathing Cape Town homicide detective Benny Griessel (after 2010’s Barry Award–winning Thirteen Hours). Griessel, a...
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Deon Meyer, trans. from the Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2324-4
Meyer’s assured fourth Bennie Griessel thriller (after 2012’s Seven Days) takes the Cape Town homicide detective to South African wine country, where the British citizen Paul Morris has been kidnapped. At the guesthouse where Morris was staying, his
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Deon Meyer, trans. from the Afrikaans by
K.L. Seeger. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2400-5
In South African author Meyer’s excellent fifth novel featuring Benny Griessel of Cape Town’s Directorate of Priority Crime Investigations (after 2014’s Cobra), Benny has been sober for more than 20 months, but he soon falls off the wagon after...
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Deon Meyer, trans. from the Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers, Atlantic Monthly, $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1958-2
In South African author Meyer's impressive second thriller to feature Cape Town Det. Insp. Benny Griessel (after Devil's Peak), which spans just 13 hours in a single day, Benny lands a pair of explosive cases: the gang slaying of an American tourist
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Deon Meyer, trans. from the Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (544p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2662-7
Meyer (Trackers) neatly integrates a whodunit into a sophisticated postapocalyptic thriller set in South Africa. In the near future, a new strain of coronavirus that developed from a chance interaction between an HIV-positive man and a sick bat has...
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Deon Meyer, read by Simon Vance, HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 11.5 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-1-61573-544-0
Simon Vance provides an assortment of authentic-sounding Afrikaans accents (think Scottish with a Germanic edge) for this first-class thriller that manages to include South African history and musings on apartheid and the environment without losing...
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Deon Meyer, read by Simon Vance, HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 11 hrs., $36.95 ISBN 978-1-61573-542-6
Afrikaner Meyer's study of an action-filled half-day in the lives of several members of a Cape Town homicide squad ranks among the best of police procedurals. The investigators, led by Capt. Benny Griessel (last seen in Devil's Peak), are trying to...
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Deon Meyer, read by Simon Vance. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61174-806-2
Meyer’s superbly crafted South African thriller follows the interconnected lives of three characters: Christine van Rooyen, a beautiful but luckless Capetown prostitute who gets on the bad side of the brother of a Colombian drug lord; Thobela...
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Deon Meyer, Author, K. L. Seegers, Translator . Little, Brown $24.99 (409p) ISBN 978-0-316-01785-5
Complex, finely wrought characters, keen psychological insight and a compelling plot lift this crime novel from South African author Meyer (Dead Before Dying
). Former mercenary Thobela Mpayipheli is trying to live a peaceful life, but these plans...
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Deon Meyer, Author, K. L. Seegers, Translator , trans. from the Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers. Atlantic Monthly $19.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1903-2
Set mainly in the game preserves of South Africa, Meyer's stellar stand-alone thriller delivers muscular prose with a hero to match. When three masked men break into the Cape Town home of Emma le Roux on Christmas Eve, Emma manages to escape...
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Deon Meyer, Author, Madeleine Van Biljon, Translator , trans. from the Afrikaans by Madeleine van Biljon. Little, Brown $24.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-316-00013-0
South African journalist Meyer's first novel, his third to be released in the U.S. (after 2005's Dead at Daybreak
), is a gritty existential tale with enough muscle for thriller fans and noir aficionados alike. Mat Joubert, a 34-year-old...
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