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Summary: Detective Emmanuel Cooper works undercover surveillance on the seedy Durban docks, but when a young boy is brutally murdered he must elude the police to conduct his own investigation. He discovers an international tussle for the political soul of South Africa.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M NUNNunn, Malla.
Summary: Police officer Emmanuel Cooper is dispatched to a remote town after a police captain is found murdered in a creek. Even though Cooper judges the crime open and shut, the government's feared Special Branch is summoned.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NUNNunn, Malla.
Summary: Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique, 1952. An Afrikaner police officer is found dead. Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of one Captain Pretorius.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUNNunn, Malla.
Summary: "Jacob's Rest is a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect. When an Afrikaner police officer is murdered, the powerful police Security Branch, dedicated to flushing out black communist radicals, preempts Detective Emmanuel Cooper's investigation. But Cooper isn't interested in political expediency and has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M NUNAndrew, Sally
Summary: The first volume of a delicious new crime series set in rural South Africa--a flavorful blend of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and Goldy Schulz, full of humor, romance, and recipes, and featuring a charming cast of characters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDChristy, Bryan
Summary: Tom Klay is a celebrated investigative wildlife reporter for the esteemed magazine, The Sovereign. But Klay is not just a journalist. His reporting is cover for an even more dangerous job: CIA agent. Klay's press credentials make him a perfect spy--able to travel the globe, engage both politicians and warlords, and openly record what he sees. While on assignment in Kenya, Klay is attacked and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRSummary: Kind, quiet Tannie Maria isn't a woman who draws much notice. She leads a solitary life, writing recipes for the local gazette, cooking with ingredients from her garden, and chatting with her pet chicken, Morag. When Maria becomes the newspaper's advice columnist, she peppers her responses with delectable recipes to help people fix their problems. But after a woman who wrote to her turns up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RECPatterson, James
Summary: Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for a routine job looking after a nervous tourist. After the apparent suicide of his business partner, he can't handle much more. But this case is not what it seems, and neither is his partner's death.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Patterson 2017Meyer, Deon
Summary: A week before Christmas, a young photographer discovers a plastic-wrapped corpse amidst the sand dunes north of Cape Town. It doesn't take long for the police to identify the body as that of Ernst Richter--the tech whiz founder of Alibi, an Internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their affairs. Assigned to the case is lead detective Benny...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYMackenzie, Jassy
Summary: "Relentless South African private investigator Jade de Jong tracks a saboteur in a race to prevent a nuclear disaster in Jassy Mackenzie's new, pulse-pounding thriller. Despite her checkered history with law enforcement, Johannesburg private investigator Jade de Jong is attempting to operate on the right side of the law, confining herself to low-profile cases. But her remarkably attractive new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMackenzie, Jassy
Summary: "Relentless South African private investigator Jade de Jong tracks a saboteur in a race to prevent a nuclear disaster in Jassy Mackenzie's new, pulse-pounding thriller. Despite her checkered history with law enforcement, Johannesburg private investigator Jade de Jong is attempting to operate on the right side of the law, confining herself to low-profile cases. But her remarkably attractive new...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACMeyer, Deon
Summary: 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 the N2 highway at the top of Sir Lowry's Pass, some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is referred to Captain Benny Griessel and his colorful partner Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks--the Directorate for Priority Crime...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Meyer 2019Patterson, James
Summary: Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague soon realizes the case is not what it seems and his partner's death may not be a suicide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bookshots, Little, Brown and Company 2017