Benny Griessel novels
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1) Devil's Peak
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Benny Griessel novels volume 1
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A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career. From this beginning, Deon Meyer weaves a story of astonishing complexity and suspense, as Inspector Benny Griessel faces off against a dangerous vigilante who has everything on his side, including public sympathy. A gruesome abuse...
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Benny Griessel novels volume 2
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After a teenage American tourist has her throat slit in Cape Town, detective Benny Griessel must find her friend, Rachel Anderson, before she meets the same fate; and when he's also put on the case of a murdered music executive, he realizes he must solve both crimes for Rachel to survive.
3) Seven Days
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Benny Griessel novels volume 3
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When Deon Meyer's Thirteen Hours won the Barry Award for Best Thriller, one of international crime fiction's most electrifying writers finally began to get the American attention he so richly deserves. With seven novels published in twenty languages (all available on audio from HighBridge), Meyer has set countless hearts racing with gripping stories that mix the violence, politics, natural beauty, and history of his native South Africa. In Thirteen...
4) Cobra
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Benny Griessel novels volume 4
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A triple homicide in the picturesque Franschhoek wine valley and the deaths of two security guards who were interrogating a Cape Town pickpocket embroil detective Benny Griessel in an increasingly complex case.
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Benny Griessel novels volume 5
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English
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When a plastic-wrapped corpse is found amidst the sand dunes north of Cape Town, it doesn't take long for the police to identify the body as Ernst Richter-the tech whiz behind MyAlibi, an Internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their affairs.
The murder quickly becomes the subject of fierce media speculation, with questions swirling about potential motives and perpetrators. Maybe it was one of...
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Benny Griessel novels volume 6
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English
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A cold case reaches from Cape Town's shadowy past to bucolic Bordeaux, France, in this thriller by the Barry Award-winning author of Thirteen Hours.
When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel's desk, he and his partner Vaughn Cupido, a fellow member of the Hawks elite police unit in South Africa, reluctantly set to work reviewing the evidence. Did ex-cop Johnson Johnson simply disappear on the world's most luxurious train line-or was...
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Benny Griessel novels volume 7
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English
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Disappearances ensnare two South African detectives in a web of corruption in this stunning thriller by the Barry Award–winning author of The Last Hunt.
Assigned to investigate the disappearance of a young university student and brilliant computer programmer detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido hit dead ends. But the trail-including the death of a fellow police officer-leads to a series of gun heists and the alarming absence of certain...
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Early on a May morning in the depth of South Africa's winter, a woman's naked body, washed in bleach, is discovered on a stone wall beside a highway some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is referred to Captains Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks-the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations.
The woman is an American named Alicia Lewis, an expert in old Dutch Masters paintings specializing...