Seven Days
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4.0 • 12 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
"I'll shoot one policeman every day, until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet," says the e-mail to the South African Police Services. And then the sniper turns threat into reality.
Bennie Griessel has to reopen the Sloet dossier. The case is 40 days old, the trail has gone cold. No motive, no leads, just a set of nude photographs, a very complicated business transaction, and immense pressure from the brass, the media, and the relentless, unfathomable sniper. And through it all, Griessel has to keep his love interest, the alcoholic, former singing sensation Alexa Barnard, sober for her comeback concert, cope with his daughter's neanderthal boyfriend, his son's shenanigans, and his new partner's idiosyncrasies--and try to tame his own all-consuming lust for the soothing powers of the bottle. Seven days of hell.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Superior prose and characterization enable Meyer to make the most of a familiar plot device in his third crime thriller with self-loathing Cape Town homicide detective Benny Griessel (after 2010's Barry Award winning Thirteen Hours). Griessel, a recovering alcoholic assigned to the Directorate of Priority Crimes Investigations, looks into an e-mail threat to shoot a policeman every day until the murderer of Hanneke Sloet is caught, starting that very day with the nonfatal shooting of a constable in the leg. The anonymous e-mailer, who insists the authorities know why Sloet, an attractive attorney, was stabbed to death, demands that the 40-day-old case be reopened immediately. Griessel takes up this political hot potato of a case as more e-mail communiqu s add to the mystery of the sniper's motives. Meyer balances the personal and professional adroitly, with a solution reminiscent of Peter Lovesey at his twistiest.
Customer Reviews
Loved it
Very entertaining with great suspense - it's been a while that I read a complete book in less than 5 days. Now Living in Canada (for 35 years) but having grown up "coloured" on the Cape Flats, I strongly related to the linguistic nuances and places which form the backdrop of the story line. The ending was a bit anti-climatic.