Thirteen Hours: A Benny Griessel Novel (Paperback)

from smik

When the story opens at 5:36 am, the girl has been running for over 3 hours. On Signal Hill Road she meets a woman with a dog, and asks for help. "They're going to kill me.... Call the police", and she runs on. Detective Inspector Bernie Grissel is woken at about the same time. A girl's body has ...

from herschelian

This is Deon Meyer's best book yet - a real roller-coaster ride through Cape Town as SAPS Captain Benny Griessel goes in search of a young American tourist who is being hunted down by a group of violent blokes who want something she has, and who have already killed her travelling companion. A cle...

from jmyers24

Sometimes you know when you read the first page of a book that it's going to be a great read. Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer is just that-a thrilling police procedural that is difficult to put down. The story opens with Rachel Anderson, an American teenager, running for her life down the streets of...

from ebyrne41

Another good crime thriller from Meyer, this time it's a race against the clock to find the fleeing girl before the bad boys who have killed her friend do. This is slightly different to the norm insofar as the story is set in a 13-hour timeframe, like the title says! So the sense of tension is al...

from imsodion

Captured by the detective genre for many years now, I truly enjoyed Meyers novel. His pace was fast and steady, weaving the storytelling every few paragraphs in keeping time with the unfolding events while heightening the thrill of the chase and solving of two murders. A very satisfying, unpredic...