num_pages: 367
description: Friday evening. A deserted street below Table Mountain. A six-year-old ballerina waits alone for her mother to fetch her. Then an unmarked car approaches and she is gone. With no trace of where or why she's been abducted suspicion falls on her divorced father Captain Riedwaan. The boss of Cape Town's gang unit Riedwaan is tough and ruthless a man accustomed to being in control. But now he is powerless. Suspended from the squad for wasting police time Riedwaan watches helplessly as the search for his daughter is called off. In desperation Riedwaan turns to investigative journalist and police profiler Dr. Clare Hart whose brutal TV documentary about Cape Town's missing young girls has made her something of a local celebrity. Clare has seen how aspiring gangsters in the Cape Flats ghetto prove their worth by tormenting children. She knows that the odds of a victim's survival worsen with each passing minute. She understands that finding the child without police involvement will be difficult dangerous and probably illegal. But she also knows she'll do anything to help this heartbroken father - even if it puts all their lives at risk.
language: English
title: Daddy's Girl
publisher: Corvus