Weeping waters
By: Karin Brynard ; translated from the Afrikaans by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon
Contributors: Dixon, Isobel, translator; Fowler, Maya, translator
Series: Book 1 of the Inspector Beeslaar series; World noir; World noir
Publisher: World Noir
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9781609454463
Subjects: Murder; Investigation; Fiction
Work titles: Plaasmoord
Description: Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But his dream of rural peace is soon shattered by the repeated attacks of a brutally efficient crime syndicate, as he struggles to train and connect with rookie local cops, Ghaap and Pyl, who resent his brusqueness and his old-school ways. A beautiful and eccentric artist and her four-year-old adopted daughter are murdered on a local farm, and angry white farmers point to her enigmatic Bushman farm manager as a key suspect. Along with Ghaap and Pyl, Beeslaar is plunged into the intrigue and racial tensions of the community and finds that violence knows no geographical or ethnic boundaries.
Notes: "Europa international mysteries and crime"--Cover.

In English, translated from the Afrikaans.