Bibliograph

Weeping waters, Karin Brynard ; translated from the Afrikaans by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon

Type

Label

Weeping waters, Karin Brynard ; translated from the Afrikaans by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Weeping waters

Oclc number

1029056463

Responsibility statement

Karin Brynard ; translated from the Afrikaans by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon

Series statement

Inspector Beeslaar series, bk. 1World noir

Summary

Personal and professional issues have forced Insp. Albertus Beeslaar, the beleaguered hero of South African author Brynard<U+2019>s impressive debut novel and series launch, to leave his position in Johannesburg for the unforgiving platteland of the Northern Cape. There Beeslaar and his two inexperienced sergeants look into the murders of artist Frederika Swarts<U+2014>tagged “the Madonna of the Kalahari” by the media<U+2014>and her four-year-old adopted daughter at their remote farmhouse. The artist<U+2019>s estranged sister, Sara Swarts, is convinced that the double homicide is not connected to other brutal farm murders in the area and returns to her childhood home to investigate. Together Beeslaar and Swarts begin to uncover a grand conspiracy that<U+2019>s entangled in tradition and mythology, historic injustices regarding land ownership, and unadulterated greed

Target audience

adult

Classification