13 Hours by Deon Meyer is the time Detective Benny Griessel has to find a missing girl before all hell breaks loose.An American girl backpacker is murdered and her friend is on the run, fighting for her life. When she disappears, Detective Benny Griessel has just 13 hours to find her. Griessel, overworked and underpaid, has a drinking problem, his job is in jeopardy and his wife has left him, and this all conspires to make it a very bad day for him.
As case after case begin to pile up, the obstacles he has to deal with, lack of properly trained staff, incompetence, the ever present racism and Eskom power cuts try his patience.
As well as the hunt for the missing girl, a well known record producer is found murdered, and the investigation offers an interesting insight into the South African music industry.
Suspicion immediately falls upon the wife, once a hugely popular singer, now a washed out has-been. Benny used to be a fan, and doesn't want to believe the wife is guilty.
Billed by his publishers as "The King of South African Crime Thrillers", Deon Meyer's 13 Hours was my first SA book, set in Cape Town, and it was interesting to experience that little jolt of recognition at the mention of things like SA celebrities and YOU magazine, familiar places and street names, accents and customs, to name but a few, as well as being immensely readable, this gets my top vote!
Happy reading!
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