A week before getting married, Janien Steyn is found dead on her parents’ farm in her wedding dress. Desperate for answers, retired top cop Jaap Reyneke begs Sarah Fourie, a convicted hacker, to help him find out what happened to his niece. Was Janien’s death suicide or murder? Why did she erase everything on her laptop? And why was her body arranged so carefully, almost artistically, as if someone was making a statement?
Irma Venter is an award-winning journalist and crime writer based in Cape Town. Her best-selling novels are Skoenlapper, Skrapnel, Sondebok, Skarlaken, Sirkus, Sondag, Sewe-en-veertig and Minder as niks. English editions include Circus, Blue Sunday, Hard Rain, Man Down and Red Tide.
A week before getting married, Janien Steyn is found dead on her parents’ farm in her wedding dress. Desperate for answers, retired top cop Jaap Reyneke begs Sarah Fourie, a convicted hacker, to help him find out what happened to his niece. Was Janien’s death suicide or murder? Why did she erase everything on her laptop? And why was her body arranged so carefully, almost artistically, as if someone was making a statement?
Irma Venter is an award-winning journalist and crime writer based in Cape Town. Her best-selling novels are Skoenlapper, Skrapnel, Sondebok, Skarlaken, Sirkus, Sondag, Sewe-en-veertig and Minder as niks. English editions include Circus, Blue Sunday, Hard Rain, Man Down and Red Tide.