DIE FANTASTIESE MEVROU SMIT

256pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2023

Afrikaans thriller set in a small South African town.

After spending a night in a police cell for drunken driving, Mrs Smit returns home to discover a body on her kitchen floor, and is determined to find the killer.

Elizabeth Wasserman is a pathologist living in Cape Town. She is the author of children's series Speurhand Willem and Anna Atoom and the Elf-dae series for teenagers.