‘I couldn’t put it down, I read it in one day.’
- Jenny Crwys Williams, Jenny’s Book Show, Radio 702

Friday evening. A deserted street below Table Mountain. A six-year-old ballerina waits alone for her mother to fetch her …

Riedwaan paused at the map, tracing the lines back to the evidence summaries that Clare Hart had made for each of the little girls. The abbreviated lives, the sparse detail. Name, date of birth, date and cause of death.
Yasmin there too. Not yet marked as dead.
‘It’s been more than seventy-two hours. If she wasn’t mine, I’d recognize this for what it is,’ he said. ‘A murder investigation.’

Captain Riedwaan Faizal is a member of the Cape Town’s elite Gang Unit. Tough ansd streetwise, he is used to being a target. But when the danger of his anti-gang war envelops his only daughter and he becomes the prime suspect in her abduction, there is little he can do. He turns to Dr Clare Hart, investigative journalist turned profiler.

Their desperate search for the missing child, whose chances of survival diminish with each hour, unravels a web of deception and danger that puts all their lives at terrible risk.

Margie Orford, an award-winning journalist and internationally acclaimed writer, is the author of the Clare Hart series. Her first two novels, Like Clockwork and Blood Rose have been translated into more than eight languages.

For more information visit her website: www.margieorford.com

Praise for Daddy’s Girl

‘Superlative…One of the most chilling books on crime that I have ever read…I found this book absolutely terrifying…Cracking entertainment – a knockout.’
- Jenny Crwys Williams, Jenny’s Book Show, Radio 702

‘Smart, sassy and, dare one say it, sexy – Margie Orford’s latest offering in the Clare Hart series, Daddy’s Girl, is all of these things and more…’
- Jennifer Crocker, Cape Times

'Margie Orford is guilty of writing a very, very good thriller. Sophisticated plotting, great characters, raw emotions, a satisfying resolution, respectful of, but not slavish to, the genre.'
- John Maytham, Cape Talk radio host and critic

'A perfectly paced plot…Orford's books often have the knack of being impossible to let go of.'
- Natalie Bosman, The Citizen

'Margie Orford, queen of South African crime thrillers, has cracked it. Her third book in the Clare Hart series, Daddy's Girl, has delivered the "ball-crushing fear" she aims for...'
- Sue Grant-Marshall, The Weekender

'Margie Orford is to Cape Town what Val McDermid is to the north of England, capturing the seamier side of the Mother City: drugs, prostitution, gangs, police corruption and the clash between policing and political correctness…Thriller fans will be delighted by this, the latest Clare Hart novel. But, as I said before, the Cape tourist industry, and sections of the South African police, I suspect, will not.'
-- Anthony Egan, Mail and Guardian

R130.00 • ISBN: 978-1-86842-386-6 • August 2010 • B-format paperback Southern African rights • Category: Crime fiction