Ein explosiver, schockierender Thriller aus Südafrika!
In Johannesburg wird eine Mädchenleiche gefunden, ohne Organe und Blut, daneben ein Fetisch. Detective Harry Mason glaubt an die Tat eines Serienkillers. Jacob Tshabalala hingegen, sein Partner, sieht einen bösen Zauber am Werk und hat Angst, die Ermittlungen weiterzuführen. Daran droht ihre Freundschaft zu zerbrechen. Da bringt ein weiterer Ritualmord Bewegung in den rätselhaften Fall …
Nominiert für den englischen John Creasey Award, das beste Krimidebüt des Jahres
Richard Kunzmann published his first police procedural in the UK at the tender age of 26, and Bloody Harvests was immediately short-listed for the Crime Writers Association’s lucrative J.C.W. Creasy Award for Best New Novel, in 2002. Publication of Bloody Harvests and his second thriller, Salamander Cotton , quickly followed in all English language territories.
The Washington Post has described his writing as ‘recalling No Country for Old Men and other Cormac McCarthy novels that focus a literary sensibility on bloodcurdling events’, while the Sunday Times hailed him as ‘an impressive new talent in the thriller genre’. The Cape Times says of his latest book, Dead-End Road , ‘It stands head and shoulders among the many crime novels we are confronted with’.
Richard’s police procedurals explore a contemporary South Africa and a society that has been ravaged by the past policies of the apartheid state and the rapid changes over the last decade brought on by democracy. Rampant crime and an under-resourced police force provide the backdrop for the critically praised Harry Mason and Jacob Tshabalala series.
His fourth book, The Price of a Country , will be the first in a new series of psychological thrillers, starring the profiler Amina Reynolds, and is due for publication in February 2010.