Jonathan Ball Publishers is proud to announce that Margie Orford’s southern African thriller series has a new home. Like Clockwork, Dr Clare Hart’s riveting debut, will be re-released in B-format in 2009.

When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town’s Seapoint promenade, police profiler Dr Clare hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are discovered, Clare is forced to revisit memories of the horrific rape of her twin sister and the gang ties that bind Cape Town’s crime rings. Are her investigations into human trafficking really linked to the murders or is the killer just playing sick games with her?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Margie Orford is an award-winning journalist, photographer, film director, author and Fulbright scholar. Previous projects include Women Writing Africa, Fabulously 40 and Beyond: Women Coming into their Own and Fifteen Men: Words and Images from Behind Bars (Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2008). Daddy’s Girl is the third title in her Clare Hart series, and follows Like Clockwork and Blood Rose.

“We’re hooked — tens of thousands of readers in SA and Europe are circling like sharks for another tasty morsel from Orford.”The Weekender

‘Margie Orford is a name you should commit to memory… Dr Clare Hart is set to become as popular as Patricia Cornwell’s forensic investigator Kay Scarpetta and Kathy Reich’s forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.’O: The Oprah Magazine on Like Clockwork

R120.00 • ISBN: 978-1-86842-327-9 • Sept 2009 • B-format PB • 260 pages South African rights • Category: Crime fiction