Showing results by author "Deon Meyer" in Crime Fiction

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.

Kaptein Mat Joubert moet ’n sjarmante rower vastrek wat die een bank ná die ander teister, en terselfdertyd moet hy ook die bloedspoor vat van ’n laksman. Maar op 34 is Mat oorgewig en hy rook en drink te veel. Bart de Wit, Moord en Roof se nuwe politiek korrekte bevelvoerder, pas terug uit exile, plaas druk op hom. Daar is nog hierdie één kans om homself te bewys en weer voor te begin.

One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, Detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing persons report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, deeply disturbing turn.

Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido are languishing in Stellenbosch. Run-of-the-mill police work in the leafy university town is a far cry from their previous life in the elite HAWKS. But when a student is found dead on a mountain trail, the two detectives find themselves trying to unpick a stubbornly difficult mystery.

A gripping new Benny Griessel thriller from one of the world's finest crime writers. When Captain Benny Griessel is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to his breaking point. A former friend and detective colleague has shot his wife and two daughters then killed himself. Benny wants out - out of his job, his home, and his relationship with his singer girlfriend, Alexa. He moves into a hotel and starts drinking again.

Nico Storm and his father drive across a desolate South Africa, constantly alert for feral dogs, motorcycle gangs, nuclear contamination. They are among the few survivors of a virus that has killed most of the world's population. Young as he is, Nico realises that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector. But Willem Storm, though not a fighter, is a man with a vision. He is searching for a place that can become a refuge, a beacon of light and hope in a dark and hopeless world.

’n Moord by die Kaapse Waterfront. Wat dalk skakel met geheimsinnige briewe wat geskorste luitenante Bennie Griessel en Vaughn Cupido ontvang het. Maar eers moet Bennie-hulle op Stellenbosch soek na ’n verdwene student, en die spoor vat van die eiendomsagent wat die kooptransaksie van Donkerdrif, korporatiewe swendelaar Jasper Boonstra se peperduur wynplaas, behartig het. En al hul ondersoeke het ’n gemene deler: die donkerste drif, gierigheid.

I'll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet. Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot by a sniper and recovering alcoholic Benny Griessel is ordered to reopen the Sloet case. Hanneke Sloet was a sensual and ambitious lawyer. At the time of her murder she was working on one of the biggest Black Empowerment deals in South African history. She was found dead in her luxury Cape Town apartment.

When Johnny K is kidnapped and held to ransom, his daughter turns to his old friend Tiny. She has seventy-two hours to deliver a disc containing sensitive data to the kidnappers. But some people are watching Tiny's every move—waiting for him to trip up and lead them to what they want....

A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks - not what they were looking for. And a difficult case too, surrounded by mystery, lies and evasion. The body of Johnson Johnson, ex-cop, has been found by the side of a railway line. He appears to have jumped from the world's most luxurious train, and two suspicious characters seen with him have disappeared into thin air.

Op 17 Desember spoel die lyk van Ernst Richter oop in die duine anderkant Parklands - dié Ernst Richter, berugte internet-entrepreneur, baas van die omstrede webwerf Alibi.co.za wat 'n maand gelede so onverklaarbaar en sensasioneel verdwyn het. Selfs in normale omstandighede sou die Valke Bennie Griessel en Vaughn Cupido gesukkel het - by Alibi.co.za lieg almal soos tannetrekkers. Maar omstandighede is nie normaal nie. Want Griessel het weer aan die suip gegaan.

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.

A housewife running from years of domestic abuse. A bodyguard hired to escort a smuggled rhinoceros. A group of Islamic terrorists based in a quiet residential street. A secret government agency threatened with amalgamation within a bigger department. A retired policeman trying to get used to his new career in the private sector.

Promus à l’unité Crimes graves et violents du poste de Stellenbosch, Griessel et Cupido n’en rêvent pas moins de réintégrer le corps d’élite de la police, les Hawks. Pour l’heure, ils enquêtent sur le décès insolite — étouffement par de la mousse expansive — d’un avocat qui se révèle être un ancien soldat des Forces spéciales. Dans le même temps, un petit commando hyper entraîné s’apprête à intercepter vingt millions de dollars en or et en coupures sur le trajet entre Johannesburg et une base navale près du Cap.

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 17th century.

Au Cap, Benny Griessel et Vaughn Cupido, de la brigade des Hawks, sont confrontés à un crime déconcertant : le corps d'un ancien membre de leurs services, devenu consultant en protection personnelle, a été balancé par une fenêtre du Rovos, le train le plus luxueux du monde. Le dossier est pourri, rien ne colle et pourtant, en haut lieu, on fait pression sur eux pour qu'ils lâchent l'enquête. À Bordeaux, Daniel Darret, ancien combattant de la branche militaire de l'ANC, mène une vie modeste et clandestine, hanté par la crainte que son passé ne le rattrape.

Der größte Raubzug der Geschichte. Bennie Griessel, aus Kapstadt in die Provinz verbannter Ermittler, will es wagen - er hat seiner Freundin Alexa versprochen, sie zu heiraten. Doch dann kommt ihm der rätselhafte Tod einer Studentin in die Quere. Die Mountainbikerin wird tot in Stellenbosch gefunden - mit seltsamen Bissspuren. Als Verdächtiger wird ein zwielichtiger Anwalt ausgemacht, der allerdings wenig später ebenfalls ermordet wird. Aber das ist nicht alles: Ein spektakulärer Raubüberfall geht gründlich schief und macht alles noch komplizierter.

Cape Town, Sydafrika: En snigskytte er begyndt at skyde tilfældige politifolk for at få genåbnet en uopklaret sag om mordet på en ung, kvindelig advokat. Samtidig beskylder han politiet for at dække over den skyldige.

Bennie Griessel plant zu heiraten – und muss sich dann um einen Fall kümmern, der eigentlich zu den Akten gelegt werden soll. Ein ehemaliger Polizist wurde in einem Luxuszug ermordet, und die geheimen Sicherheitsbehörden Südafrikas tun alles, um es nach einem Selbstmord aussehen zu lassen. Als ein zweiter Todesfall ebenfalls vertuscht werden soll, bekommt Griessel eine Ahnung davon, dass es um viel mehr geht als um Mord. Gewisse Kreise wollen den Präsidenten aus dem Weg räumen. Sie haben dazu jemanden aktiviert, der sich in Bordeaux in Frankreich zur Ruhe gesetzt hat: einen Kämpfer namens Tobela.

Kapstadt im Dezember. Bennie Griessel wird zu einem Tatort gerufen, der ihn aus der Fassung bringt. Ein Kollege hat seine Frau, seine zwei Töchter und dann sich selbst erschossen. Bennie will nur noch weg - von Alexa, seiner Freundin, von seinen Kindern. Er strandet in einer Bar und betrinkt sich. Ein herber Rückfall für den trockenen Alkoholiker.