PLAASMOORD

510pp., paperback, Reprint, Human & Rousseau, Cape Town, (2009) 2025

ISBN:‎ 9780798151160

Winner of the 2010 University of Johannesburg Debut Prize for Creative Writing.

Inspector Albertus Beeslaar moves from Johannesburg to a small town on the edge of the Kalahari to establish a business dealing with livestock theft. When a double murder is committed on a farm, he is confronted with a dangerous criminal syndicate and a land claim being exploited by white vigilantes.

Former journalist Karin Brynard is the author of the thrillers Onse vaders (ATKV Literature Prize) and Tuisland. She lives in Stellenbosch.