THE FOURTH BOY

300pp., paperback, Karavan Press, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9781067222444

Novel set in the Karoo in the mid-1980s.

Recently graduated journalist Grant Asher investigates a series of murders in three quiet Karoo towns. The victims were all once part of a group of five hundred Polish-Jewish children housed at an orphanage in Oudtshoorn during the Second World War.

Andrew Robert Wilson has worked in the media and entertainment industry for nearly forty years, and was a theatre critic for the Mail & Guardian in the late 1990s. The Fourth Boy is his debut novel.