by Lisa Jewell | Published by Penguin Random House

 

He’s the perfect man. He says he loves you. You think he might even be made for you. Before long he’s moved into your house - and into your heart. And then he leaves for days at a time. You don’t know where he’s gone or who he’s with. And you realise - if you looked back - you’d say to yourself: DON’T LET HIM IN.

deur Sidney Gilroy | Uitgegee deur NB Uitgewers

 

Sersant Sollie Mthembu se nuwe ondersoek gaan jou behoorlik laat vraatlees in Roulette. In September 1998 vertrek die vier Ludick-sibbe en drie maats na Ballito. Net die drieling en hul vriende keer ’n week later terug na hul tuisdorp naby Bloemfontein. Van die sprankelende dertienjarige Lara Ludick se lewe het net haar dagboek oorgebly. Dis byna sewe-en-twintig jaar later en die Ludick-drieling - Lötter, Oscar en Duan - worstel steeds met skuldgevoelens, elk op sy eie manier. In Junie 2025 verdwyn ’n mediese student naby Veldrus, nie ver van waar die Ludicks en hul destydse pelle grootgeword het nie. Enkele dae later word die vermiste student se pa dood in ’n huurmotor naby die Bram Fischer-lughawe gevind. Kort voor lank begin nog liggame opduik. Aan elke slagoffer se oorskulp is ’n nommer duidelik sigbaar - gemerk soos ’n bees met ’n tatoeëer-klamp. Sersant Sollie Mthembu se nuwe ondersoek lei hom terug na die onopgeloste Ludick-dossier. Om die moordenaar te stuit, en tegelyk iemand na aan hom se lewe te red, moet Sollie agter die kap van die byl kom: Is dit wraak? Of word mense stilgemaak?

by Holly Jackson | Published by Penguin Random House

 

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Twenty-seven years old, she’s back living with her parents, waiting for her life to begin. She’ll do it later, she always says. Her parents have their doubts. Until, on the night of Halloween, Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder.

She suffers a catastrophic brain injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, she’ll suffer a deadly aneurysm. Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her ex-best friend turned sister-in-law, her former boyfriend. She may only have seven days - if she even makes it that long - but Jet is absolutely determined to finally prove her doubters wrong. Jet is going to solve her own murder.