The Praying Mantis

Every day, men’s bodies pop up all over Cape Town. As Detectives Reeve and Porter investigate the case, the trail gets ever colder. All the victims are killed with the same cold and merciless precision. All foreign businessmen. All unidentified.

As if The Praying Mantis case isn’t enough to handle, the detectives are hunting the Singles Killer, a man who murders young lonely women in their homes and leaves strange markings on their corpses with a single children’s rhyme.

Reeve and Porter race against time to expose The Praying Mantis and bring her to justice, but their best hope of doing so falls into their lap from a contact at X-plicit, a brothel in Cape Town. Her name is Nikki Knight. She is as beautiful as she is damaged, and she claims to have worked with The Praying Mantis, who the detectives discover are actually four women.

All rules are broken when one of The Praying Mantis women comes face to face with the mysterious Singles Killer. Will she survive the encounter? Will Nikki’s co-operation help to solve the case? How far is The Praying Mantis prepared to go to make sure she isn’t caught? Only time will tell whether Nikki’s arrival leads to the murderesses being brought to justice or if The Praying Mantis will eliminate the witness and detectives.