Piekniek by Hangklip

Joshua Gumbo, a Zambian who belongs to Johannesburg’s Lucky Thirteen syndicate, is stealing a car when the young Gauteng lawyer Sonja Griessel stumbles out of it and, by accident, kisses him on the mouth; in the chaos he shoots her parents dead, and the kiss leaves him without his mojo. Sonja sells up and moves to the Overstrand, where she wants a trustworthy property agent and a good architect to build her a house at Betty’s Bay. Joshua, who caught only a glimpse of her at night but knows her scent, tracks her to the Cape to win his power back. Their farcical, often bawdy adventures draw in a crowd of oddballs, from two suspect diet-institute agents and an architect called Tertius von Tlön to a critic hiding secrets and a former apartheid spy turned preacher.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Africa

First published

2011 by Human & Rousseau

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9780798156035 (original)