A SECOND SHOT

259pp., paperback, Penguin South Africa, Cape Town, 2026

ISBN: 9781776380473

Book 2 in the Arnold Prinsloo trilogy. Book 1, An Act of Murder, was published in 2025.

Arnold Prinsloo is ready to stop hiding in his mother’s house in the small Karoo town of Victoria and risk going home to Johannesburg when two seemingly connected murders shock the town - and his family finds itself at the centre of the mystery.

Tom Eaton has been a columnist for the Mail & Guardian, Noseweek, Sunday Times Day and Business Day. He is the author of the novels The De Villiers Code, Texas and The Wading, as well as the non-fiction titles, The Unauthorised History of South Africa and Is It Me Or Is It Getting Hot In Here? He wrote both series of the SAFTA-award winning Shoreline for SABC and co-created the SABC3 comedy Those Who Can’t with Alan Committee. He lives in Cape Town.