Onse vaders

Two policemen work cases at opposite ends of the country. In a Stellenbosch enclave of the very rich, a burglary turns deadly: a striking red-haired woman is beaten to death, and her children find her. Captain Albertus Beeslaar, only visiting the wine town with its gabled houses and old money, is reluctantly drawn in, and with the formidable Captain Vuyokazi Quebeka he digs through the town’s culture and its fortunes for the killer. Some 1,500 kilometres north, Sergeant Johannes Ghaap is sent to Soweto, a place that can be lethal to strangers, with no time to learn his way around. A mother and her child have been taken in a carjacking and are hidden somewhere among its endless shacks and matchbox houses, and finding them means facing The Father, a figure so brutal that many think he is only a myth.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

509 pages in the original

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Africa

First published

2012 by Human & Rousseau

ISBN

9780798158237 (original)