NEMESIS

When yet another body is found with a note that simply reads Ít is finished’, Ben Hugo of the South African Police knows there’s a serial murderer on the loose. Or could it be a mob bent on revenge? It does not seem as though there’s only one perpetrator.

Gradually it surfaces that these victims were all involved in one of the worst excesses: paedophilia. Secretly Hugo is of the opinion, as are many others, that paedophiles deserve the kind of death that befell these mutilated corpses. But he is also a police officer charged with finding those who take the law in their own hands, and this is what he resolves to do... until this festering social boil affects Hugo’s private life, and he is forced to rethink the morals of rule of law versus vigilantism.

At which point should emotion and personal involvement make room in the fight for justice?

REUK VAN DIE DOOD

Someone is abducting and murdering young women in Mafikeng. A common thread is soon established between these murders: each victim loses a finger. A serial killer’s trophies. Die murders are ominous, because the victims are tortured and killed in anger.

It’s the worst kind of murderer there is, because he is intelligent and he enjoys the cat-and-mouse game.
This suspect needs to be stopped, and stopped quickly.

Junior Scheepers is the lead investigator, but he has his own problems. His life is falling apart after his divorce and he’s struggling to break out the dark nimbus that surrounds him. He is negligent and aggressive, and these qualities become obstacles in the investigation.

SPOORLOOS

Alex Cloete is poor and he’s divorced; he tries to make ends meet as a tradesman. This is not easy—his ex regularly makes demands on his meagre resources. He doesn’t see eye to eye with his flashy brother. And to crown it all, Alex has a dark past...

His mother adores him. Zander, his son, lends structure to his life, but Mercia, his ex-wife, has custody of Zander and they live in Durban. Father and son see each other only when Zander visits over the holidays.

When Mercia dies in a car accident, Zander, who was with her in the car, disappears.

Did the torrent in the rever where the car was found drag him down-stream, or are other sinister at work? Did the ‘accident’ have it origins in Alex’s past?
If Zander isn’t dead, where can he be? Who kidnapped him, and why?

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