‘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

Sharply intelligent and beautiful, investigative journalist turned profiler Dr Clare Hart has a reputation: she can see into the darkest places of the violent criminal mind.
Riedwaan Faizal is a member of the South African Police’s elite Gang Unit. Tough and streetwise, he is used to being a target. But when the danger of his one-man anti-gang war envelopes his only daughter, and he becomes the prime suspect in her abduction, there is little he can do.

Distraught, Faizal turns to a sceptical Clare Hart for help. Their desperate search for the missing child, whose chances of survival diminish with each hour, unravels a tangled web of deception and danger that puts all their lives at terrible risk.

Dr Clare Hart is back … Orford’s chilling prequel to Like Clockwork raises the stakes and the suspense to gripping new levels.

This long-awaited and elegant English translation of Elsa Joubert’s much-acclaimed novel, Die Reise van Isobelle, now invites English-speaking readers to share the author’s unique account of the lives of an ordinary South African family against the backdrop of a century of extraordinary national and international upheaval.

Set between 1894 and 1994 and spanning four generations, this engaging and beautifully told saga focuses on the lives of the women of the family, whose literal and metaphorical journeys between the start of the Anglo-Boer War and the birth of democracy in South Africa provide the fabric of the narrative.
It explores especially the tensions created by the conflict between loyalty to the family and loyalty to one’s own beliefs.

Elsa Joubert probes with profound insight and acute observation the influences, cultural and historical, that drove otherwise decent, essentially well-meaning South Africans to the evil of apartheid.

She confronts with rare courage and frankness the undeclared civil wars that white South Africans waged among themselves for almost a hundred years, and counts the cost in the disappointments and wasted lives the conflict produced. Isobelle’s Journey reveals the essential tragedy of what took place in South Africa: it exposes inescapably the guilt and innocence of the Afrikaner nation.

Elsa Joubert was born in Paarl and lives in Cape Town. Throughout her illustrious and very prolific career she has been awarded almost every prize for Afrikaans writing, some more than once. Die Reise van Isobelle was awarded the W A Hofmeyer Prize and the Hertzog Prize (probably the most prestigious award for Afrikaans writing). Elsa was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Stellenbosch for this magnificent book. Elsa has also been recognised internationally for her work, and was awarded the Winifred Holtby Prize by the British Royal Society of Literature, as well as being made a Fellow of the Society for her novel The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena (originally published in Afrikaans as Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena). Poppie has been voted one of the top 100 best books of the 20th century.

Jock of the Bushveld, published in 1907, has been read and enjoyed by millions of children and is now a classic among animal stories. It remains as fresh and exciting as it was when it was first written. Since its release in 1907 it has remained a firm favourite in South Africa and has been widely read abroad; it has been printed in many languages including Afrikaans, Dutch, French, Xhosa and Zulu.

Jock’s owner was a young transport rider in the rugged and colourful days of the Transvaal gold rush. Those were the days when big game roamed the land and each sunrise brought a new adventure.

Fitzpatrick first told his children about his adventures with his dog at bedtime. It was his close friend Rudyard Kipling who convinced him to collect the stories and record them in a book. The story of the bull terrier who shared his master’s life on the veld has been illustrated with lively sketches by Edmund Caldwell.

Fitzpatrick searched for a suitable artist to illustrate the book and settled on the talents of Edmund Caldwell, and he went as far as to take Caldwell to South Africa to see the Bushveld to ensure the authenticity of his illustrations.

Sir Percy Fitzpatrick was a politician, author and a pioneer of the fruit industry. He was the eldest son of James Coleman Fitzpatrick, judge of the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony, and Jenny Fitzgerald, both from Ireland. Percy was educated at Downside Abbey, near Bath, England, and later at St Aidan's College, Grahamstown. On his father's death in 1880 he left college in order to support his mother and her family. In 1884 he went to the Eastern Transvaal gold-fields where he worked as a storeman, prospector's hand and journalist, and as a transport-rider from Lourenco Marques by ox-wagon to Lydenburg and Barberton. In Barbeton he became editor of the Gold Field News. He died in 1931.

Jock of the Bushveld, published in 1907, has been read and enjoyed by millions of children and is now a classic among animal stories. It remains as fresh and exciting as it was when it was first written. Since its release in 1907 it has remained a firm favourite in South Africa and has been widely read abroad; it has been printed in many languages including Afrikaans, Dutch, French, Xhosa and Zulu. Jock’s owner was a young transport rider in the rugged and colourful days of the Transvaal gold rush. Those were the days when big game roamed the land and each sunrise brought a new adventure.

Fitzpatrick first told his children about his adventures with his dog at bedtime. It was his close friend Rudyard Kipling who convinced him to collect the stories and record them in a book. The story of the bull terrier who shared his master’s life on the veld has been illustrated with lively sketches by Edmund Caldwell.

Fitzpatrick searched for a suitable artist to illustrate the book and settled on the talents of Edmund Caldwell, and he went as far as to take Caldwell to South Africa to see the Bushveld to ensure the authenticity of his illustrations.

Sir Percy Fitzpatrick was a politician, author and a pioneer of the fruit industry. He was the eldest son of James Coleman Fitzpatrick, judge of the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony, and Jenny Fitzgerald, both from Ireland. Percy was educated at Downside Abbey, near Bath, England, and later at St Aidan's College, Grahamstown. On his father's death in 1880 he left college in order to support his mother and her family. In 1884 he went to the Eastern Transvaal gold-fields where he worked as a storeman, prospector's hand and journalist, and as a transport-rider from Lourenco Marques by ox-wagon to Lydenburg and Barberton. In Barbeton he became editor of the Gold Field News. He died in 1931.