Extracts
Extract: The Profiler Diaries by Gérard Labuschagne
03 August 2022
In this gripping account, the former South African Police Service head profiler recalls one of some 110 murders and countless other bizarre crimes he analysed during his fourteen-and-a-half-year career. An expert on serial murder and rape cases, here, Labuschagne walks the reader through the senseless murder of Thembinkosi Cebekhulu by an...
Extract: Land Matters by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
03 August 2022
Land reform remains one of the most charged issues in South Africa today. In this extract taken from the thoughtful and provocative, Land Matters, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi sheds light on one of the most complex questions in South Africa today.
“The ANC supported the confirmation of the 1996 Constitution, which contained no...
Extract: Shattered by James Patterson & James O. Born
28 July 2022
In the new novel in the bestselling series, Detective Michael Bennett is searching for a former partner who has disappeared without a trace.
PROLOGUE
EARLY MORNING WAS one of her favorite times of the day. The sun had just cracked the horizon and traffic was still light. She was in training for the Marine Corps Marathon and...
Extract: The Apartment Upstairs by Lesley Kara
28 July 2022
When Scarlett approaches Dee about planning her aunt's funeral, an unexpected link between them emerges. Together, the two women could uncover secrets that have long been buried. Even while someone wants to stop them digging . . .
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“The bus idled in traffic. Scarlett rubbed a circle in the steamed-up window. Soon she...
Extract: Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney
28 July 2022
In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history - Russia's invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on Putin's rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must respond.
Chapter One
The Killing Machine
“Some idiot is moving heavy furniture around in the flat above and...