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Selected by Marcel Berlins in The Times as one of the 50 best crime novels of the last 50 years & Deon Meyer is acclaimed for his portrayals of crime & the police after the end of apartheid Non-white detectives hold positions once monopolised by their white bosses & the tensions are high& After 602 days dry Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can&t take any more tragedy So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide it pushes him close to breaking point
- a former friend & detective colleague has shot his wife & two daughters then killed himself Benny wants out
- out of his job his home & his relationship with his singer girlfriend Alexa He moves into a hotel & starts drinking Again But Benny&s unique talent is urgently required to help investigate another crime
- the high profile murder of Ernst Richter MD of a new tech startup Alibi whose body is discovered buried in the sand dunes north of Cape Town Alibi is a service that creates false appointments documents & phone calls to enable people to cheat on their partners It has made Richter one of the most notorious people in South Africa Can Benny pull together the strands of his life in time to catch the killer?