SINGLE MINDED

318pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2024

Thriller set in Pietermaritzburg in 2001, at the height of the AIDs pandemic.

When Dr Murphy Meyer takes up a position at run-down Eden State Hospital, she enters a world mired in corruption and superstition.

Marina Auer is a medical doctor in private practice in Durban. She spent several years working in state hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal. Her debut novel, Double Edged, was published in 2023.