‘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

Following the popular success and critical acclaim of her first novel, Fiona Snyckers is back with the second book in the beguiling Trinity Luhabe series. The much-anticipated sequel to Trinity Rising picks up the story four years on, when Trinity is 23 and living in Johannesburg.

Trinity On Air is packed with all the charm and humour readers have come to expect from Fiona Snyckers - with just an added pinch of danger.

With her university days behind her, life couldn’t be better for Trinity Luhabe. She’s got everything a Sandton girl needs -

The Perfect Boyfriend: Ethan brings her (fat-free) breakfast in bed and takes her to craft markets on weekends.

The Perfect Job: Working at Jozi Talks radio is a dream come true for Trinity. She’s still only on the traffic desk, but one day she’ll be reading the news … just as soon as she can convince her boss that “15 Hot Hairstyles For Summer” is a serious news story.

The Neighbour: Ajala is six foot five inches of mysterious Nigerian. Trinity thinks he’s a pussycat. Her best friend Steph thinks he’s a man-eating tiger. Looking into his business dealings could be Trinity’s ticket off the traffic desk and onto hard news.

The Ex: An old flame from university days is back … and hotter than ever. He’s threatening to turn Trinity’s comfortable life upside down.

Join Trinity Luhabe for the ride of her life as all the elements in her perfect world collide.

R145.00 | 9781868423651 | March 2010 | B-format paperback | 250 pages | World rights | Category: Fiction

A breathtaking, atmospheric thriller and a stunning return for investigator Dr Clare Hart. The gruesome murder of a homeless teenage boy suggests a methodical serial killer is at work in Walvis Bay, a depressed port, isolated in the vast sweep of the Namib Desert. It is a corrupt, claustrophobic place with a shifting population of people who came here only because they had to and where people know everything - and nothing - about each other.

As part of a cross-border policing initiative, Dr Clare Hart is sent to profile the possible killer. She works with Captain Tamar Damases, an astute local detective, who heads up the coastal town's Sexual Violence and Murder Unit. Clare is glad to be distracted from the implosion of what was till a few days ago a blossoming love affair with Captain Riedwaan Faizal, who turned out to be more married than she thought.... As the two women trace older crimes that may be related to the recent killings, nothing is as it seemed at first. And as Riedwaan comes to join Clare, to help with the investigation and to try to salvage their relationship, she realises that the harbour holds more than just rusting Russian fishing trawlers, and that a deadly cargo is ready to sail. It's not just their relationship that is in danger, their very lives - and the lives of others - are at stake....

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.

R130.00 • ISBN: 978-1-86842-348-4 • Aug 2009 • B-format Pb 127mmx192mm South 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.

South Africa as you've never seen it: a tale of incest and white trash. Funny, feisty, ferociously clever. A dazzling flight of the imagination that is anarchic and at the same time, deadly serious. Read it.' Gillian Slovo

Marlene van Niekerk’s multi-award winning novel Triomf tells the story of the four residents of 127 Martha Street in the then ‘poor white’ suburb of Triomf, built on the ruins of old Sophiatown, once the vibrant and notorious centre of black city life in Johannesburg. This story of a highly dysfunctional Afrikaans family of the time illustrates the fear and trepidation that was felt about the political changes sweeping the land and their earnest and sometimes amusing attempts to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on the white underclass who should have been its main beneficiaries.

'An astonishing departure for Afrikaans literature ... this is an extraordinary novel and a milestone for South African literature. Those who thought, as I did, that white writing would run out of road in post-apartheid South Africa could not have been more wrong.' Justin Cartwright Daily Telegraph

'The tenderness of the writing, eliciting an unexpected compassion in the reader, is remarkable in a first-time novelist. It is not hard to poke fun at Afrikaners: to reveal their underlying humanity is a much more impressive accomplishment.' David Robson Sunday Telegraph

'Widely considered the outstanding Afrikaans novel of the 1990s ... Triomf is exquisitely written.' The Economist

'Van Niekerk's extraordinary novel, beautifully translated by the South African poet Leon de Kock, offers a devastating glimpse of an under-class locked into a cycle of poverty and despair.'

Won the CNA Literary Award, and M-Net Prize in South Africa.
Won the prestigious Noma Award for the best book in Africa.

R175.00 • ISBN: 978-1-86842-069-8 • May 2009 • TPB • 500 pages World rights • Category: Fiction