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BLOOD ROSE
Fiction (Crime) 352 pages
Atlantic Books - March 1, 2010
The gruesome murder of a homeless teenage boy suggests a methodical serial killer is at work in the depressed port of Walvis Bay. A breathtaking, atmospheric thriller and a stunning return for investigator Dr Clare Hart.
'Margie Orford has nailed it. BLOOD ROSE is wonderfully crafted and fully engrossing. It's a book that stays with you, even after the last page is turned.' -- Michael Connelly
'Margie Orford has scored a second hit. Blood Rose is superbly plotted, packed with thrills, spills and canoodling.' -- Cape Times -
DADDY'S GIRL
Fiction (Thriller) 367 pages
Jonathan Ball (South Africa) - September 2009
The prequel to the series in which the explosive relationship between her characters Dr Clare Hart and Riedwaan Faizal begins.
When Faizal's one-man anti-gang war envelops his only daughter, and he becomes the prime suspect in her abduction, there is little he can do. Distraught, Faizal turns to Clare Hart for help.
Their desperate search for the missing child, whose chances of survival diminish with each hour, unravels a tangled web of deception and danger that puts all their lives at terrible risk.
'Margie Orford, queen of South African crime thrillers, has cracked it. Her third book in the Clare Hart series, DADDY'S GIRL, has delivered the “ball-crushing fear” she aims for...' -- Sue Grant-Marshall, The Weekender -
LIKE CLOCKWORK
Fiction (Crime) 314 pages
Atlantic Books - March 2009
Nominated for the SA Sunday Times Book Awards 2007
Introducing an impressive new crime thriller heroine, Dr Clare Hart - a documentary filmmaker and a part-time police profiler who jogs obsessively and lives the life of a self-enforced singleton in Sea Point, Cape Town. With her sometime lover and partner in crime detection, troubled cop Riedwaan Faizal, Clare trails a serial killer targeting young girls in Cape Town. As the bodies mount up, Clare attempts to put together a gruesome jigsaw of events that may or may not be linked to her film research on the trafficking of women and the gang rape of her sister years earlier.
Biography
Award-winning journalist, photographer, film director, children's author, Fulbright scholar. Born in London, she grew up in southern Africa. She was detained as a student activist during the State of Emergency in 1985 and wrote her finals in prison.
After travelling widely, she studied under J M Coetzee, and worked in publishing in Namibia. While in New York, she worked on the groundbreaking archival retrieval project, WOMEN WRITING AFRICA. Her latest non-fiction project is FABULOUSLY 40 AND BEYOND; Women Coming Into Their Own (Spearhead/NAB, 2006). She compiled 15 MEN: WORDS AND IMAGES FROM BEHIND BARS (Jonathan Ball 2008). This is a collection of writing by men with whom she conducted a nine-month creative writing workshop in Groot Drakenstein Prison (formerly Victor Verster) from 2007 and 2008.
She lives in Cape Town with her husband and three daughters.
'Orford [is] top of the class of crime writing in South Africa. This is largely due to her ability to write with a sense of true humanity and yet maintain a pacy sexy style.' -- Jennifer Crocker, Cape Times
'Margie Orford is to Cape Town what Val McDermid is to the north of England, capturing the seamier side of the Mother City: drugs, prostitution, gangs, police corruption and the clash between policing and political correctness.' -- Anthony Egan, Mail & Guardian
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