num_pages: 250
description: The Cape Peninsula carries secrets known only to the wind the fynbos and the creatures that live there. Six teenage boys are found raped murdered and dumped down the side of its mountains.It is two years since the discovery of the first boy and Detective Junaid Japtha is no closer to cracking the case. With pressure mounting and without any tangible evidence he can only rely on his experience and instructs to track down the killer.Fifteen-year-old Tyrone May from Macassar spends his days in limbo. He has no one to talk to. No one listens. He is curious and confused about his feelings. Like most boys he has yet to develop a sense of his own mortality. It allows for daring that will dissipate as he grows older but for now Tyrone will accept the friend request a handsome stranger sends him.Elton Baatjies is the newly appointed teacher at a local high school. These are his people and he is soon embraced by the close-knit community. But he is tied to the six dead boys in ways no one could have predicted and the secrets among them threaten to tear the sleepy mountain town apart.
language: English
title: Elton Baatjies
publisher: Karavan Press