Monday, 25 May 2020


A couple from Deon Meyer, an author I have actually read something from.

Most of his books are set in and around Cape Town. There's thirteen in total including seven in his series featuring an alcoholic cop, Benny Griessel

To date, I've read five of his books, Trackers (2011) before I started blogging
and the following four...
The Woman in the Blue Cloak (2018)
Cobra (2012)
Blood Safari (2008)
Heart of the Hunter (2003)

I hope to read the other eight in the next couple of years.

Icarus (2015)

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 and the police after the end of apartheid. Non-white detectives hold positions once monopolised by their white bosses, and 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 and detective colleague has shot his wife and two daughters, then killed himself. Benny wants out - out of his job, his home and his relationship with his singer girlfriend, Alexa. He moves into a hotel and starts drinking. Again.


Fever (2017)

I want to tell you about my Father's murder.

I want to tell you who killed him and why.

This is the story of my life.

And the story of your life and your world too, as you will see.

Nico Storm and his father drive across a desolate South Africa, constantly alert for feral dogs, motorcycle gangs, nuclear contamination. They are among the few survivors of a virus that has killed most of the world's population. Young as he is, Nico realises that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector.

But Willem Storm, though not a fighter, is a man with a vision. He is searching for a place that can become a refuge, a beacon of light and hope in a dark and hopeless world, a community that survivors will rebuild from the ruins. And so Amanzi is born.

Fever is the epic, searing story of a group of people determined to carve a city out of chaos.


  1. Deon Meyer is definitely one of those authors who doesn't disappoint, Col. I'll admit, I've not read all of his books. But what I have read is taut, well-written, and full of really interesting characters. I like the way he describes modern South Africa, too.

    1. I do like his work Margot. The back drop is interesting, as in many ways South Africa is still finding its way post-apartheid.
