Catalog Search Results
Author
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When children's author Angelica meets South African vintner Jack at a dinner party, they hit it off immediately but Angelica doesn't want to risk her marriage on a fling. But when Angelica goes to Cape Town on a book tour, her affair with Jack begins in earnest.
Author
Series
Physical Desc
xxxii, 191 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and moments of happiness. Living in this shadow is Azure, a thirteen-year-old who makes his living on the streets, a black teenager sought out by white men, beholden to gang leaders but determined to create...
6) The score
Author
Series
(Hawa Jande),Vee Johnson mystery volume 2
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally acclaimed newspaper reporter Vee Johnson reprieves her role as Cape Town's most feisty female investigator. Vee and her ever-faithful sidekick, Chloe Bishop, have been banished from City Chronicle's newsroom to review a tourist lodge in sleepy Oudtshoorn. But Vee and Chloe are barely checked in to their rooms when the first body is discovered ... hanging from a tree, with Vee's purple silk scarf used as a noose. But is it suicide...
Author
Series
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Voinjama Johnson, 28, is an ambitious investigative journalist at the Cape Town magazine Urban. Her life is messy, and to top it all, Vee's been seeing things: a teenage girl in a red hat, more specifically, an unsettling hallucination that goes hand-in-hand with debilitating episodes which Vee is loath to call "panic attacks". When Vee spots a photograph of the girl from her visions at a local hospital, she quickly launches an investigation, under...
Author
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Reminiscent of Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon, this "gorgeous, wildly funny and, above all, profoundly moving and humane" (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here) coming-of-age tale follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda during the Civil War and make sense of his reality"--
Meet Se̓raphin: playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, self-appointed merchant of cool, Rwandan, stifled and living in Windhoek, Namibia. Soon he will leave...
9) Cobra
Author
Physical Desc
344 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, a skilled young thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. Then one day he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American...
10) Icarus
Author
Physical Desc
372 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A week before Christmas, a young photographer discovers a plastic-wrapped corpse amidst the sand dunes north of Cape Town. It doesn't take long for the police to identify the body as that of Ernst Richter, the tech whiz founder of Alibi, an Internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their affairs. Assigned to the case is lead detective Benny Griessel -- but unfortunately, his two years of sobriety have...
Author
Series
Books4pocket. Narrativa volume 447
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Para todos los que la conocen, Angélica vive en un mundo perfecto. Tiene un matrimonio ideal, dos hijos pequeños, y un encantador círculo de amistades. Pero Angélica es, también, una mujer que ha olvidado su propia belleza y su capacidad de seducción. Y su marido se muestra cada vez más distante y distraído. Hasta que un encuentro casual con Jack, un seductor sudafricano, hace tambalear todas sus convicciones. Por primera vez en muchos...
12) Thirteen hours
Author
Physical Desc
587 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
After a teenage American tourist has her throat slit in Cape Town, detective Benny Griessel must find her friend, Rachel Anderson, before she meets the same fate; and when he's also put on the case of a murdered music executive, he realizes he must solve both crimes for Rachel to survive.
13) Seven days
Author
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to stop a shooting spree against cops, homicide detective Bennie Griessel is given the thankless task of solving a cold case that has no leads.
Looking for an older book we don’t have?
Printed books not owned by Santa Fe Public Library that were released more than 6 months ago can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Limit: 3 per calendar month.
Looking for a newer item we don’t have?
Suggest the library purchase a new book, DVD, audiobook, or music CD through your account. Limit: 30 active requests at a time. Submit Purchase Suggestion