Thrillers / African literature

Broken Monsters

by Lauren Beukes – Mulholland Books (September 16, 2014)

"Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down...I'd grab it if I were you." --Stephen King

A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's new genre-bending...

The Shining Girls: A Novel

August Derleth Award 2014

by Lauren Beukes – Mulholland Books (June 04, 2013)

THE GIRL WHO WOULDN'T DIE HUNTS THE KILLER WHO SHOULDN'T EXIST.

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own."

Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past....

Treachery in the Yard

by Adimchinma Ibe – St. Martin's Press (August 03, 2010)

A stunning police procedural debut from one of Nigeria's young up-and-coming talents, Treachery in the Yard introduces an electrifying new setting to the world of international crime fiction

Detective Peterside...

Zoo City

by Lauren Beukes – Mulholland Books (August 16, 2016)

A new edition of Lauren Beukes's Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel set in a world where murderers and other criminals acquire magical animals that are mystically bonded to them.

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back,...

Moxyland

by Lauren Beukes – Mulholland Books (August 16, 2016)

Lauren Beukes's frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable that follows four narrators living in a dystopian near-future.

Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato,...

Dead Before Dying: A Novel

by Deon Meyer & Madeleine Van Biljon – Little, Brown and Company (February 01, 2008)

Someone in Cape Town has chosen a conspicuous murder weapon -- a century-old German handgun, with ancient bullets that tear through flesh and bone. Three men who have nothing in common are found murdered, and...