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"'Chilling' Heat 'A skillfully crafted thriller' Marie Claire 'Dr. Clare Hart is set to become as popular as Patricia Cornwell's forensic investigator Kay Scarpetta and Kathy Reich's forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.' O: The Oprah Magazine 'Gritty, fast paced and violently realistic, Orford has created a Cape Town underworld whose depths reach into the far recesses of human depravity.' Saturday Star 'A fantastic serial killer crime novel from Margie Orford... Like Clockwork ticks along perfectly.' Cape Times"
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Time is running out...A killer who won't stop. An investigator who won't give up. When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town's Seapoint promenade, police profiler Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are discovered, Clare is forced to revisit memories of the horrific rape of her twin sister and the gang ties that bind the city's crime rings. Are the murders really linked to human trafficking, or is the killer just playing sick games with her?
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Margie Orford's addition to the psychological profiler genre is sure to be a hit with fans who enjoy suspense and the unravelling of the complex makeup of serial killers. Set in beautiful, cosmopolitan Cape Town, principally around the waterfront and inner suburb of Sea Point, Dr Clare Hart profiler, works closely with the police where a blossoming romance with Captain Faisal Riedwaan, also complements the main action. A further sub-plot focusses on Hart's documentary work with trafficking in sex and women throughout South Africa and the wider African continent.
Three bodies are discovered and the reader follows the actions of the investigators as there's a race against time to save a fourth girl who's gone missing. It's known that the killer likes to keep his victim somewhere before the body turns up, in a pattern which Hart observes is 'like clockwork.'
We're also introduced to Clare's twin Constance who is disfigured as a result of a gang rape some twenty years earlier and the reader gains an insight into life in the South African city as the police are taken into the homes of the victims' families and Hart reveals something of the less salubrious side of the city as she attends upmarket parties with shady characters and trawls the dark streets on the trail of an escaped refugee.
The action hots up as it moves towards its denouement. It builds quite a lot of tension and anticipation even if the identity of the killer was a tad predictable. Perhaps what's most edifying is the snapshot of this exotic city with its interesting cultural mosaic and the sense that it's a seminal time within the country itself.
It's good to discover a fresh voice in this genre. I look forward to her next two instalments in this series: both of which have now been published.
Three bodies are discovered and the reader follows the actions of the investigators as there's a race against time to save a fourth girl who's gone missing. It's known that the killer likes to keep his victim somewhere before the body turns up, in a pattern which Hart observes is 'like clockwork.'
We're also introduced to Clare's twin Constance who is disfigured as a result of a gang rape some twenty years earlier and the reader gains an insight into life in the South African city as the police are taken into the homes of the victims' families and Hart reveals something of the less salubrious side of the city as she attends upmarket parties with shady characters and trawls the dark streets on the trail of an escaped refugee.
The action hots up as it moves towards its denouement. It builds quite a lot of tension and anticipation even if the identity of the killer was a tad predictable. Perhaps what's most edifying is the snapshot of this exotic city with its interesting cultural mosaic and the sense that it's a seminal time within the country itself.
It's good to discover a fresh voice in this genre. I look forward to her next two instalments in this series: both of which have now been published.
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