MAN DOWN, translated by Karin Schimke

328pp., paperback, First English Language Edition, Cape Town 2021

First published in 2013 in Afrikaans as Skrapnel.

Sequel to the thriller Hard Rain. Ranna Abramson returns to South Africa to face the past and find missing journalist Alex Derksen, the man she loves.

Irma Venter works as a journalist in Johannesburg. She won the ATKV award for Skoenlapper. Her novels include Sirkus, Sondag and Sewe-en-veertig.