223pp., paperback, Kwela Books, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN:9780795711138

A fictionalised retelling of the Scissors Murder committed in the early 1970s in South Africa.

Teenager Lorraine van Niekerk hates the fact that her boss and lover, orthopaedic technician André Bekker, won’t leave his wife and marry her. When she meets Alfie Geemooi, a recent amputee on the run from the police, she comes up with a plan.

David Cornwell is the author of the novel Like It Matters (2016), and co-wrote and co-produced the Afrikaans feature film Pou (Peacock). He writes songs and plays guitar with Danieyella Rodin in the acoustic roots music duo, Sickle Moon. Born in 1985 in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown), he currently lives in Johannesburg.

HELL OF A COUNTRY

: Cornwell (D.)

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