Deon Meyer

From internationally acclaimed crime writer Deon Meyer, a new thriller that leads detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido into the treacherous waters of government corruption at the highest level. When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel'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 of the disappearance--and possible murder--of ex-cop Johnson Johnson on the world's most luxurious train line. Two fellow travelers might have the answers Griessel and Cupido need--but they too seem to have disappeared into thin air, 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 native South Africa and his revolutionary past. But when a man from that past reappears to commission his unique skills one more time, Daniel is forced to decide whether to remain anonymous or to strike a forceful blow against a corrupt government. The two storylines eventually crash together in an ending as dramatic as it is unexpected, leaving Griessel and Cupido uncertain of their own future. With its rapid-fire plotting and beloved characters, The Last Hunt shows one of today's great crime writers operating at the peak of his powers and makes a brave and powerful statement about the pervasive corruption that has stolen so much from Meyer's native country.

A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks elite police unit - not what they were looking for. And a difficult case, too. The body of Johnson Johnson, ex-cop, has been found beside a railway line. He appears to have jumped from South Africa's - perhaps the world's - most luxurious train, and two suspicious characters seen with him have disappeared into thin air. The regular police have already failed to make progress and others are intent on muddying the Waters. Meanwhile in Bordeaux, Daniel Darret is settled in a new life on a different continent. A quiet life. But his skills as an international hit-man are required one more time, and Daniel is given no choice in the matter. He must hunt again - his prey the corrupt president of his homeland. Three strands of the same story become entwined in a ferocious race against time - for the Hawks to work out what lies behind the death of Johnson, for Daniel to evade the relentless Russian agents tracking him, for Benny Griessel to survive long enough to take another huge step in his efforts to piece together again the life he nearly destroyed - and finally ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. The Last Hunt shows one of the great crime writers operating at the peak of his Powers.

'The undisputed champion of South African crime. Meyer grabs you by the throat and never lets you go' Wilbur Smith'From its startling opening to its tense and thrilling conclusion, Deon Meyer's The Last Hunt takes you on a whirlwind safari across two continents. In the whole of the Benny Griessel series so far, the stakes have never been higher or the odds so much against' Peter Robinson ***A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks elite police unit - not what they were looking for. And a difficult case, too. The body of Johnson Johnson, ex-cop, has been found beside a railway line. He appears to have jumped from South Africa's - perhaps the world's - most luxurious train, and two suspicious characters seen with him have disappeared into thin air. The regular police have already failed to make progress and others are intent on muddying the waters. Meanwhile in Bordeaux, Daniel Darret is settled in a new life on a different continent. A quiet life. But his skills as an international hit-man are required one more time, and Daniel is given no choice in the matter. He must hunt again - his prey the corrupt president of his homeland. Three strands of the same story become entwined in a ferocious race against time - for the Hawks to work out what lies behind the death of Johnson, for Daniel to evade the relentless Russian agents tracking him, for Benny Griessel to survive long enough to take another huge step in his efforts to piece together again the life he nearly destroyed - and finally ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. The Last Hunt shows one of the great crime writers operating at the peak of his powers.

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickThe Woman in the Blue Cloak is a brilliant novella which will thrill and entertain fans of Deon Meyer's much-loved detective Benny Griessel. Benny Griessel is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. That means he needs to buy an engagement ring - and that means he needs a loan. So Benny has a lot on his mind when he is called to a top-priority murder case. A woman's body is discovered, naked and washed in bleach, draped on a wall beside a picturesque road above Cape Town. The identity of the victim is a mystery, as is the reason for her killing. Gradually, Benny and his colleague Vaughn Cupido begin to work out the roots of the story, which reach as far away as England and Holland... and as far back as the seventeenth century.

Det är många som har hotat Ernst Richter till livet. Svartsjuka män, religiösa extremister alla som hatar skaparen av alibi.co.za, en sajt för otrogna med särskilda behov. Så när hans döda kropp hittas i sanden blir det en stor grej i de sydafrikanska medierna. Inte precis vad Bennie Griessel, Deon Meyers favoritsnut, önskar sig. Samtidigt börjar en ung man berätta sin historia för en kvinnlig advokat. Det handlar om vinodling och komplicerade fäder. Och det hänger ihop med mordet på Richter, förstås. Ikaros ger Meyer en säker plats på topp fem av världens deckarstjärnor. Det är hans femte och bästa roman i serien med Bennie Griessel.

A stunning standalone thriller from the leading crime writer in South Africa, author of the best-selling Benny Griessel series.

Sydafrika, i dag. En matematikprofessor från Cambridge kidnappas på en avsides vingård. En ficktjuv, som snor ihop till sin systers läkarstudier bland turisterna vid Kapstadens Waterfront, åker fast men lyckas fly efter en eldstrid. Kvar på brottsplatserna ligger patronhylsor med en mystisk märkning i form av en kobra. Bennie Griessel, smart snut och nykter alkoholist, förstår inte varför han inte får sköta utredningen i fred. Vad har MI6, den engelska underrättelsetjänsten, med en simpel ficktjuv och en okänd professor att göra? Deon Meyer, Sydafrikas lysande deckarstjärna, i en ny skildring av sitt hemlands komplicerade samtid. "Deon Meyer skriver rafflande och mångbottnat om ett Sydafrika som fortfarande kämpar med sviterna efter apartheidsystemet." Sydsvenskan "Med Deon Meyer kan det inte gå fel. Han är en författare vars arbete jag beundrar, väntar på och sedan slukar. Michael Connelly

In the latest thriller from internationally acclaimed writer Deon Meyer, Captain Benny Griessel is forced to take a case involving a controversial tech figure while coping with the death of a colleague. Shortlisted for the 2016 CWA International Dagger Award Shortlisted for the 2016 Nielsen Booksellers' Choice Award An Amazon Best Book of the Month Named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe and Financial Times One of Publishers Weekly's Best Audiobooks of 2015 Deon Meyer, South Africa's preeminent crime fiction writer, is internationally acclaimed for his razor's-edge thrillers, unforgettable characters, and nuanced portrayals of contemporary life in his native country. The latest pulse-pounder starring Captain Benny Griessel, a lead detective in South Africa's Priority Crimes Investigation unit, delves into a high-profile murder case and the country's burgeoning tech and wine industries. 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 and founder of Alibi, an internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their affairs. Meanwhile, Benny Griessel is called to the scene of a murder-suicide involving a former colleague, and 602 days of sobriety are undone on the spot. He seems determined to drink away his career, but the take-no-sass Major Mbali Kaleni, now his boss, wants Griessel on the Richter case. The murder has already been the subject of fierce media speculation, with questions swirling about the potential for motive: could the perpetrator be one of the countless jilted spouses? An aggrieved client? Before the week is out, an unexpected connection to a troubled family winery comes to light, and Griessel must either quit drinking and close the case, or risk losing everything he loves. Mounting towards a startling conclusion, Icarus is another first-rate novel from the "King of South African Crime."

A gripping thriller from the leading crime writer in South Africa, now with a best-selling international reputation featuring his much loved detective Benny Griessel.

Allt lämnar i alla fall spår efter sig. Noshörningstjuvar, privatdetektiver, gamla snutar och olyckliga kvinnor. Deon Meyer följer i sin nya roman tre spår som skenbart inte har något med varandra att göra. Men de rör alla vid hjärtat av denna komplicerade nation: kriminaliteten, den politiska korruptionen. Lemmer, den slitne privatdeckaren är tillbaka, liksom Mat Joubert, före detta polis som nu ska ta sig an sitt första fall som privatspanare. Milla Strachan är ny, det är bara hennes äktenskap som är gammalt och utslitet. Hänförande läsning och det överraskande slutet antyder att det inte är sista gången vi möter dessa engagerande gestalter. (Joan Smith i Sunday Times)

Klockan 18.45 i går sköt jag en polis utanför Claremonts polisstation. Klockan 11.50 i förmiddags sköt jag en polis vid polisstationen i Green Point. Den okände avsändaren av mejlet tänker fortsätta om inte utredningen av mordet på en ung, vacker och framgångsrik advokat öppnas igen, och löses. Fallet är endast fyrtio dagar gammalt, men spåren har redan kallnat. Bara några nakenbilder, en komplicerad affärs­transaktion och ett enormt tryck från medierna. Bennie Griessel, som har lika stora problem med att få ordning på sitt privatliv som med detta oförklarliga mord, har inget att gå på. Nya hot och trycket ökar. Sju dagars helvete. Deon Meyers kriminalromaner, varav idag nio stycken finns på svenska med Ikaros från 2016 som den senaste, utspelas alltid mot en bakgrund av politik och våld i Kapprovinsen. De möter ett mycket stort intresse från en ständigt växande läsekrets runt hela världen.

Krugerparken är en av Sydafrikas största attraktioner. Men det försvinner folk bland de vilda djuren. Emma le Roux har inte hört av sin bror på tjugo år. Hon hyr in Lemmer, en frilansande livvakt, för att leta reda på honom. Han är en bitter och besviken man, längst ner på skalan över de bittra och besvikna. Någon vill att Emma och Lemmer ska misslyckas. Någon vill ha mer av Krugerparken. »The action is as exciting as any reader of thrillers has a right to demand As Meyer writes, money and poverty and greed do not lie well together. But they make a hell of a thriller.« (The Guardian) »Sakta men säkert väver författaren en både spännande och intressant väv av personliga tragedier och samhälleliga tillkortakommanden i ett Sydafrika efter apartheid.« (Corren)

"Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters." --Michael ConnellyAt the start of this masterful thriller, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed at a guest house in the beautiful wine country outside Cape Town. It'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 Cobra, but unwittingly has in his possession information that could cause an international outcry. And it'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. Cobra is a first-rate thriller from a writer at the top of his game.

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickWhy 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 . . . Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger, COBRA is a relentlessly suspenseful, topical and richly rewarding novel from an author who is acclaimed around the world as a brilliant voice in crime fiction.