Seven Days
A Novel
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3.9 • 16 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Detective Griessel must solve a cold case to stop a shooter in this thriller from the acclaimed South African author.
Two police officers have been shot, and the Cape Town homicide department has received emails from the shooter alleging the cover-up of an unsolved murder. If the cold case isn't reopened immediately, the shooter's carnage will continue.
Now Det. Capt. Benny Griessel is out to solve the crime in question: the murder of an ambitious lawyer stabbed to death in her luxury apartment. Unfortunately, there's no apparent motive, forensic evidence, or leads.
As Griessel races to piece together an investigation with nothing to go on and his colleague, Capt. Mbali Kaleni, attempts to locate the shooter, a third cop becomes the victim of another barrage of bullets. The shooter is growing bolder by the day, and it's only a matter of time before Griessel ends up in his sights . . .
"What makes Meyer such a national treasure—and as good as anyone in the world—is that even if you have no knowledge or interest in South Africa's history or present, his books are compelling page-turners." —The Times (London)
"Superior prose and characterization . . . reminiscent of Peter Lovesey at his twistiest." —Publishers Weekly
"Sleekly done crime fiction layered with the cultural complexities of the new South Africa." —Booklist
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.
