Martin Steyn

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Martin Steyn het begin skryf as gevolg van Stephen King. Nadat hy The Dark Half gelees het, was hy selde sonder ’n boek met Stephen King se naam voorop. En toe tel hy ’n potlood op en skryf ’n storie van sy eie. ’n Paar jaar later het reeksmoordenaars hom na die misdaadgenre toe gelok. Dit het Steyn gefassineer dat hierdie mans vreemdelinge vir hulle plesier jag en hy het begin om boeke oor Jeffrey Dahmer en Andrei Chikatilo te lees, terwyl hy die plaaslike koerant dophou vir berigte oor ’n reeksmoordenaar wat die liggame van jong seuns tussen die duine los, skaars 30 km van Steyn se huis af.

Hy het Sielkunde en Kriminologie deur die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika studeer, en ’n honneursgraad in eersgenoemde
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“Chanette Paul, vir die genadelose ontwikkelingsverslag;”
Martin Steyn, Losprys

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“[Y]ou are ... entrusted with the pursuit of that most extraordinary of crimes: the theft of a human life. You speak for the dead. You avenge those lost to the world.”
David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

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Irma Venter, Skoenlapper

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