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  • Katharina Code Hardcover – by Jørn Lier Horst (Author), Anne Bruce (Translator)

    Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing.

    All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled on a piece of paper.

    Every year on October 9th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files to the case he was never able to solve. Stares at the code he was never able to crack. And visits the husband he was never able to help.

    But now Martin Haugen is missing too.

    As Wisting prepares to investigate another missing person’s case he’s visited by a detective from Oslo. Adrian Stiller is convinced Martin’s involved in another disappearance of a young woman and asks Wisting to close the net around Martin.

    But is Wisting playing cat and mouse with a dangerous killer or a grief-stricken husband who cannot lay the past to rest?
    ___________

    Set between the icy streets and dark forests of Norway, The Katharina Code is a heart-stopping story of one man’s obsession with his coldest case.

    Atmospheric, gripping and suspenseful; this is Nordic Noir at its very best.

    R60,00
  • Moenie Hierdie Boek Eet Nie! – ‘n Rympie vir Elke Dag van die Jaar (Afrikaans, Hardcover as new) Jaco Jacobs

    Wat soek ’n haai in die skool se swembad? Hoe lank is ’n weerwolf se humeur? Is enige iets erger as skottelgoed was? Wat is ’n huis sonder ’n moeder? Is ’n draak die perfekte troeteldier? Wat soek jou ouma op die Pick n Pay se dak? Hoekom dra bere nie klere nie? Wat sou gebeur het as die maan ’n pizza was? Waarom is daar so min rympies oor erdvarke? Bestaan daar iets soos ’n spaghettiboom? Wat moet jy doen as ’n renoster jou jaag? Hoe klink die perfekte monsterbrul? Wat eet Dracula vir nagereg? Kan jy jou eie elmboog lek? Jy sal die antwoorde op al hierdie vrae in die lawwe lekkerlagboek vind. Moenie hierdie boek eet nie! bevat 365 rympies (en ’n bonusrympie vir ’n skrikkeljaar) wat kinders (en grootmense!) heeljaar sal laat skaterlag! Daar’s rympies oor oupas en oumas, goggas, krieket, ruimtevaarders, seerowers, spoke, skooltoilette, erdvarke, Kersvader, krokodille, volstruismelk, Valentynsdag, en dinge wat baie sleg ruik … Daar’s lawwe limerieke, heerlike haikoes en tawwe tongknopers! Jaco Jacobs se GROOTSTE en SNAAKSSTE rympiebundel OOIT is ’n moet-he-boek vir elke kind se boekrak!

    R200,00
  • In Dire Straits Author: edited by malisa (paperback)

    Set amid the volatility and hysteria of the worst water crisis the area has ever faced, In Dire Straits is a novel by six women whose horrifying personal tale merges in a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction climax of nightmarish proportions.

    R100,00
  • Twenties Girl she’s having the time of her life by Sophie Kinsella (hardback signed copy)

    Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don’t get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara’s great aunt Sadie – in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl – has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can’t rest without.

    R150,00
  • Once in a Lifetime Hardcover – by Cathy Kelly

    Kenny’s Department Store isn’t just a place to shop; it’s the heart of Ardagh, Ireland. Behind its stately Edwardian facade is an up-to-date store featuring unusual boutique products in an elegant setting. Here lives intersect…and secrets hide. TV reporter Ingrid Fitzgerald has watched her husband, David Kenny, pour his heart and soul into the family store — the “other woman” in her marriage — for years. Now, as their children fly the nest, Ingrid discovers something that will shake her world to its foundation.

    …to see that you aren’t alone.

    Charlie Fallon is a dedicated Kenny’s employee who adores her husband and son, but her selfish, dominating mother seems determined to ruin everything. Free spirit Star Bluestone, who sells her beautifully crafted tapestries at Kenny’s, has her own secrets and wisdom to share. But when unexpected tragedy shocks everyone at Kenny’s and threatens its future, the women of Ardagh find that secrets have a way of always coming out — with repercussions that lead them to rely on one another more than ever before.

    R100,00
  • It Ends With Us (Paperback) by Colleen Hoover

    Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up – she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

     

    Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily, but Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan – her first love and a link to the past she left behind.

    He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

    With this bold and deeply personal novel, It Ends With Us is a heart-wrenching story and an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price.

    R60,00
  • The Girl Who Wasn’t There by Ferdinand von Schirach (Paperback)

    Condition: Very good

    A smart, chilling tale of truth, deception and the reach of the law, The Girl Who Wasn’t There is the latest crime thriller from the acclaimed author of The Collini Case, a Waterstones Book Club pick.

    Sebastian von Eschburg, scion of a wealthy, self-destructive family, survived his disastrous childhood to become a celebrated if controversial artist. He casts a provocative shadow over the Berlin scene; his disturbing photographs and installations show that truth and reality are two distinct things. When Sebastian is accused of murdering a young woman and the police investigation takes a sinister turn, seasoned lawyer Konrad Biegler agrees to represent him – and hopes to help himself in the process. But Biegler soon learns that nothing about the case, or the suspect, is what it appears.

    R60,00
  • The Au Pair by Emma Rous (Paperback)

    Condition: Very good

    COSMOPOLITAN BOOKS OF 2019

    Seraphine Mayes and her brother Danny are the first set of twins to be born at Summerbourne House. But on the day they were born their mother threw herself to her death, their au pair fled, and the village thrilled with whispers of a stolen baby. Now twenty-five, and mourning the recent death of her father, Seraphine uncovers a family photograph taken on the day the twins were born featuring both parents posing with just one baby . Seraphine soon becomes fixated with the notion that she and Danny might not be twins after all, that she wasn’t the baby born that day and that there was more to her mother’s death than she has ever been told…

    R80,00
  • The Wife’s Tale by Lori Lansens (Paperback)

    Condition: Good

    From the bestselling author of The Girls. On the eve of her wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband to come home, listening for his car along the dark, icy roads. As the night draws on, and he fails to appear, Mary reflects on the true nature of their marriage.

    R50,00
  • Little Deaths by Emma Flint (Paperback)

    Condition: Very good

    It’s the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and her two young children missing. After a desperate search, the police make a horrifying discovery. It’s every mother’s worst nightmare. But Ruth Malone is not like other mothers …Noting Ruth’s perfectly made-up face and provocative clothing, the empty liquor bottles and love letters that litter her apartment, the detectives leap to convenient conclusions, fuelled by neighbourhood gossip and speculation.

    A phenomenal achievement. Little Deaths is one of those so-very-rare accomplishments: a lightning fast, heart-pounding, psychologically resonant crime novel that effortlessly transcends genre. If you believed that literary fiction can’t be a one-sitting read, think again — Jefferey Deaver 

    R60,00
  • The Fourth Assassin by Matt Rees (Paperback)

    Condition: Very good

    This is the fourth Omar Yussef mystery from CWA John Creasey Dagger winner Matt Rees. When Omar Yussef travels to New York for a UN conference, he is eager to see his youngest son, Ala. But the discovery of a decapitated corpse in his son’s empty apartment catapults him into a police enquiry full of contradictions. In his desperation to clear Ala’s name, Omar’s investigations place him at the heart of a deadly international conspiracy.

    R60,00
  • There Should Have Been Five by Marilyn Honikman (Paperback)

    Condition: Good

    Two children visit the Museum of Military History in Johannesburg and are intrigued by a painting of a black serviceman at the top of the stairs. . . There were 354 000 South Africans who volunteered to serve in South Africa’s defence force and nursing services in World War II. This book tells of one of these men, Job Maseko, whose heroic deed was almost forgotten for 50 years.

    R60,00
  • The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith (Paperback)

    Condition: Very good

    The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin’s death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin’s successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. His adopted daughters have yet to forgive him for his part in the brutal murder of their parents. They are not alone.  Leo, his wife, and their family are in grave danger from someone with a grudge. Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance.

    R60,00
  • The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani (Paperback)

    Condition: Very good

    One of the 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR of The New York Times Book Review (2018)

    When Myriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family’s chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Building tension with every page, The Perfect Nanny is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, motherhood, and madness, and the American debut of an immensely talented writer.

    R80,00
  • Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten (Paperback)

    Condition: Good

    In sixty-eight years, Valeria has never minced her words. Harrumphing through her isolated little village deep in the Hungarian steppes, she clutches her shopping basket like a battering ram and leaves nothing uncriticised – flaccid vegetables at the market; idle farmers carousing in Ibolya’s Nonstop Tavern; that gauche chimpanzee of a mayor and his flashy, leggy wife; people who whistle. But one day, her spinster’s heart is struck by an unlikely arrow: the village potter, with his decisive hands and solid gaze. Valeria finds herself suddenly dressing in florals and touching her hair, and what’s more, smiling at people in the street.

    R60,00
  • The Collini Case by Ferdinand Von Schirach (Paperback)

    Condition: Very good

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE/FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME & THRILLER NOVELS SINCE 1945.

    A murder. A murderer. No motive. Fabrizio Collini is a hard working, quiet and respectable man. Until the day he visits one of Berlin’s most luxurious hotels and kills an innocent man in cold blood. Young attorney Caspar Leinen takes the case. Getting Collini a not-guilty verdict would make his name. But far too late he discovers that he knows Collini’s victim. Leinen is caught in a professional and personal dilemma. Collini admits to the murder but won’t say why he did it, forcing Leinen to defend a man who won’t defend himself. And worse, a close friend, and relation of the victim, insists that he give up the case. His reputation, his career and this friendship are all at risk.

    R80,00
  • Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (Paperback)

    Condition: very good

    A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel about mysterious books and dusty bookshops; it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new. Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone, and serendipity, coupled with sheer curiosity, has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead they simply borrow impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra.

    R80,00