Bücher der Reihe Benny Griessel in Reihenfolge

Bennie Griessel hat eigentlich genug zu tun als gerade trockener Alkoholiker mit einer mehr als komplizierten Beziehung, doch sein vierter Fall lässt diese privaten Sorgen in den Hintergrund treten. Drei Bodyguards werden tot aufgefunden auf einem abgelegenen Weingut und von ihrem Schützling, einem Cambridge-Mathematiker, fehlt jede Spur. Der einzige Hinweis auf den Täter scheinen die in die Kugel eingeritzten Schlangenköpfe zu sein, wären da nicht das auffallend große Interesse mehrerer Politiker. An was genau hat der Mathematiker gearbeitet, dass er drei Bodyguards brauchte? Griessel und sein Team tauchen kopfüber ein in ein Netz aus Korruption und internationalen Verstrickungen und die unwahrscheinlichste Hilfe scheint von einem jungen Taschendieb zu kommen, der ein mehr als brisantes Handy zu seiner Beute zählt. Gewohnt packend und komplex entführt Deon Meyer den Leser hier erneut in die dunkle Unterwelt Südafrikas.Deon Meyer (geb. 4. Juli 1958) ist Südafrikas bekanntester Krimi-Autor und drüberhinaus als Regisseur und Drehbuchautor tätig. Schon in jungen Jahren war er schriftstellerisch tätig, arbeitete nach seinem Studium aber zunächst als Journalist und Werbetexter. Sein erster Roman erschien 1994, bevor er mit der Krimiserie um den desillusionierten Bennie Griessel 2004 seine größten Erfolge feierte. Mehrere seiner Romane wurden erfolgreich verfilmt, zuletzt die seit 2016 ausgestrahlte Serie "Cape Town", zu der er auch das Drehbuch schrieb. Er wird häufig mit Autoren wie Henning Mankell und John le Carré verglichen und wurde mit mehreren Krimi-Preisen ausgezeichnet. Er ist verheiratet und lebt mit Frau und vier Kindern in der Nähe von Kapstadt.

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickThe former freedom fighter known as 'Tiny' has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life. But then his beloved son is taken away from him. In that moment, he unleashes himself upon a corrupt South Africa. His victims are those guilty of crimes against children.He goes by the name of Artemis.Benny Griessel, a fading policeman on the brink of losing his job, family and self-respect, is assigned the case. Benny knows that this is his last chance - both his career and the safety of Cape Town are on the line.But then Benny meets Christine, a young mother working as a prostitute, and something happens that is so terrifying that the world will never be the same again for Benny, for Christine, or for Tiny.

Selected by Marcel Berlins in The Times as one of the 50 best crime novels of the last 50 years: 'Deon Meyer is acclaimed for his portrayals of crime and the police after the end of apartheid. Non-white detectives hold positions once monopolised by their white bosses, and the tensions are high'After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can't take any more tragedy. So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point - a former friend and detective colleague has shot his wife and two daughters, then killed himself. Benny wants out - out of his job, his home and his relationship with his singer girlfriend, Alexa. He moves into a hotel and starts drinking. Again.But Benny's unique talent is urgently required to help investigate another crime - the high profile murder of Ernst Richter, MD of a new tech startup, Alibi, whose body is discovered buried in the sand dunes north of Cape Town. Alibi is a service that creates false appointments, documents and phone calls to enable people to cheat on their partners. It has made Richter one of the most notorious people in South Africa. Can Benny pull together the strands of his life in time to catch the killer?

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick***Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards' murder is the snake engraved on the shell casings of the bullets that killed them. Investigating the massacre, Benny Griessel and his team find themselves being drawn into an international conspiracy with shocking implications. It seems it is not just the terrorists and criminals of Britain and South Africa who may fear the Professor's work, but the politicians too. As the body count begins to spiral viciously, Benny must put his new-found love life aside and focus on finding the one person who could give him a break in the case: a teenage pickpocket on the run in the city. But Benny is not the only person hunting for Tyrone Kleinbooi . . . Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger, COBRA is a relentlessly suspenseful, topical and richly rewarding novel from an author who is acclaimed around the world as a brilliant voice in crime fiction.