Peter James’ DEAD IN THREE TWO ONE is an immediate bestseller

November 6, 2026 Intern BlakeFriedmann

DEAD IN THREE TWO ONE, the 22nd title in Peter James’s international bestselling Roy Grace Series, was published to great fanfare on Tuesday 20th October 2026. It immediately went to No.2 in the UK hardback fiction bestseller chart and has remained in the UK Top Ten despite fierce competition.

Peter visited bookshops up and down the country (covering over 3,000 miles!) to promote DEAD IN THREE TWO ONE – finally landing in Brighton for the official launch at Brighton’s iconic Palace Pier, where the Mayor of Brighton and Hove was in attendance, amongst many others. Peter will appear on BBC Radio 4’s A Good Read, set to air on Monday 9th November at 3pm, and has many podcast appearances to come throughout the end of 2026.

In other news, Season 7 of GRACE (ITV’s popular television adaptation of the Roy Grace series) concluded filming earlier this month and is set to air next year, with an exact date still to be announced.

As noted by Waterstones when flagging October’s Best Books, in DEAD IN THREE TWO ONE ‘Roy Grace’s old nemesis prepares to exact devastating revenge during Brighton Pride in this heart-pounding entry in Peter James’s beloved – not least by Queen Camilla – police procedural series.’

Brighton is celebrating. A killer is waiting. And Roy Grace is the target…

Brighton Pride is the biggest date on the city’s calendar with half a million people lost in the party. But behind the opulent façade of the Royal Courteney Hotel, a nightmare is checking in.

Dritan Dervishi, the cold-blooded consigliere for mob boss Roel Albazi, has arrived with a beautiful woman on his arm and a lethal secret in his suitcase. He has specifically requested Room 321 – a room with a perfect view of the sea, and a deadly proximity to a target he’s been dreaming of for years.

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is already pushed to the limit, coordinating the city’s massive security operation amid whispers of a potential terrorist attack. But the threat is more personal than he could ever imagine. Back in a prison cell, his old nemesis Albazi is counting down the seconds to a revenge that will not just take Roy’s life, but erase his entire bloodline.

And as Roy and his wife Cleo prepare for a night of celebration at the Royal Courteney, they have no idea that they are stepping into a deadly trap.

As the relentless countdown nears zero, Roy must outsmart an invisible enemy and protect his loved ones before their time finally runs out…

DEAD IN THREE TWO ONE will be out in paperback in Spring 2027. Peter is currently working on the next novel in the Roy Grace series, which will be published by Pan Macmillan in the autumn of 2027.

About Peter James

Peter James is the international bestselling author of many award-winning novels. Peter writes both thriller standalones and the hugely popular Brighton-set Roy Grace series.

Peter’s books have been translated into thirty-eight languages, with worldwide sales of over 24 million copies and his Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, set in Brighton, has given him 21 Sunday Times Number Ones. In 2015 WH Smith customers voted him the Greatest Crime Author of All Time and in 2016 he was awarded the coveted CWA Diamond Dagger, a lifetime achievement award for sustained excellence. In 2018 he received a Specsavers Honorary Platinum Bestseller Award and in 2024 he won four Silver Nielsen Bestseller Awards. Peter James has also written two books based on true crime stories, with former senior detective Graham Bartlett.

The opening episode of GRACE, based on the first Roy Grace novel, DEAD SIMPLE, was broadcast in March 2021 with John Simm starring in the lead role as the tenacious detective. It was a TV Pick of the Day across all the major UK newspapers, appeared on ITV 1’s prime Sunday night slot and viewing figures quickly reached more than 8.8 million, with glowing reviews. In May 2025 it was in the top ten of ITVX’s most streamed shows.

Peter took part in the launch podcast of the Queen’s Reading Room in January 2024, having had the Grace series featured on the Royal Reading Room previously. He appeared on the podcast again in June 2024, where he was named one of Her Majesty’s favourite crime writers and Roy Grace her favourite fictional detective!

In 2026, Peter was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours List, in recognition of his services to literature and to charity.

Praise for Peter James

‘Superior plotting and edge-of-the-seat suspense’ – The Guardian

‘Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business’ – Karin Slaughter

‘A master plotter who cunningly tunes into contemporary concerns. Peter James cannot fail to thrill.’ – The Daily Mail

‘Memorable characters and nail-biting tension’ – Kathy Reichs

‘Peter James creates a world we can smell, touch and feel for his Brighton detective Inspector Roy Grace’ – The Times

‘Probably the closest we’ll get to a British Stephen King’ – The Financial Times

‘With echoes of Thomas Harris, the closer analogue is to Jeffrey Deaver’s clock-racing thrillers… James delivers the goods.’ – Kirkus Reviews

‘James just gets better and better and deserves the success he has achieved with this first-class series’ – Independent on Sunday

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Graeme Armstrong’s THE YOUNG TEAM to be adapted for the stage by the National Theatre of Scotland and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

October 28, 2026 Intern BlakeFriedmann

THE YOUNG TEAM – Graeme Armstrong’s award-winning debut novel – is set to hit the stage in 2027, in an adaptation co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London. Adapted for the stage by Kieran Hurley and directed by the Lyric Hammersmith’s Artistic Director Rachel O’Riordan, the play will make its bow at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Summer 2027, before coming to London for a limited engagement from 2 September until 25 September. It will end its first run at the Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow, later in Autumn 2027.

Tickets for the London shows at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre are on sale now.

THE YOUNG TEAM is a searing exploration of masculinity and tribalism about a group of teens drawn into the orbit of the local Young Team Posse in Scotland’s post-industrial heartland. First published by Picador in 2020, and inspired by Graeme Armstrong’s own experiences in North Lanarkshire in the early 2000’s, the novel won a Betty Trask Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, and the Scots Book o the Year 2021. A TV adaptation, produced by Synchronicity Films for BBC One and BBC Scotland and starring a cast of breakthrough local talent alongside established stars Kevin McKidd (GREY’S ANATOMY) and Laura Fraser (BREAKING BAD), is currently filming ahead of broadcast in 2027.

‘I’m excited to see THE YOUNG TEAM adapted for stage and look forward to working with both Rachel and Kieran to bring the complex world of Scottish territorial violence to a new audience, particularly those who may have never seen their lives or communities depicted in a theatrical production before’ said Graeme.

‘Graeme’s brilliant novel is a powerful example of the epic stories that unfold in ordinary people’s lives, and it has been an honour to be allowed to spend time living in its world,’ added Kieran Hurley, playwright/adapter of THE YOUNG TEAM. ‘As well as an uncompromising and brutally honest account of violence and gang life, it's really a wonderful story of young male friendship, its loyalty, rivalry, and surprising tenderness. I can't wait to see Azzy Williams take over the theatre, bringing these uniquely Scottish voices to the stage, and for audiences to feel the pull of the Young Team: the love and allegiances that bind these boys together, and the damage and hurt they inflict and endure. I hope it will move and provoke and ultimately open a conversation about our young men and their vital, dangerous, and often unrequited search for recognition and belonging.’

Rachel O’Riordan, the director of THE YOUNG TEAM, said: ‘I am so proud to be directing Kieran Hurley’s stage version of THE YOUNG TEAM by Graeme Armstrong. The novel is a cultural phenomenon – heartbreaking, vital and hilarious… Partnering with National Theatre Scotland on the stage adaption of Graeme Armstrong’s blistering debut novel feels like a vital and exciting connection. Writer Kieran Hurley and I, with a tremendous creative team, will share this powerful story with audiences in both Scotland and London in a bold theatrical experience’

‘You’re loyal Azzy Williams. You’re loyal to your mates. That’s good. You’ll no be runnin aboot wae that lot forever but, surely?’

Welcome to Scotland in 2005.

For Azzy, born and bred in North Lanarkshire, the Young Team Posse (YTP) seems to promise everything he could possibly want: excitement, community, freedom. It’s where boys become men, and he’s hungry to grow up.

Soon he’s rising up the ranks, showing the world what he’s made of. It’s fast, furious – and dangerous. Is the Young Team where Azzy belongs, or just where he’s ended up? Either way, the YTP is for life. Getting in is easy, not so finding a way back out…

About Graeme Armstrong

Graeme Armstrong is a Scottish writer from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within North Lanarkshire’s gang culture. Alongside overcoming his own struggles with drug addiction, alcohol abuse and violence, he defied expectation to read English as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling; where, after graduating with honours, he returned to study a Masters’ in Creative Writing. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Strathclyde.

Graeme regularly works within the community visiting prisons and schools, giving talks on his experiences of gang-culture and substance abuse. He promotes a message of anti-violence and abstinence-based recovery.

His bestselling debut novel, THE YOUNG TEAM (Picador, 2020), is inspired by his experiences. It won a Betty Trask Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, and the Scots Book o the Year 2021, and is set for both TV and stage adaptations in 2027. Graeme’s second novel, RAVEHEART, was published by 4th Estate in 2026.

In 2021, Graeme presented Scotland: The Rave, a documentary broadcast by the BBC that explored Scotland’s rave and PCDJ culture, subsequently nominated for a BAFTA Scotland and RTS Scotland Award 2022. His second documentary series, Street Gangs, where Graeme reflects on his own past as an ex-gang member to try to understand life inside a modern gang, aired on the BBC in October 2023.

In 2023, Graeme was chosen as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, an accolade that is awarded once a decade.

Praise for THE YOUNG TEAM

‘(A) firecracker of a debut... a welcome noughties update of Kingsley Amis’s beer-soaked hanxiety in Lucky Jim.’ – Suzi Feay, The Guardian

‘Raw and lyrical... written in a voice that recalls Irvine Welsh and Alan Warner – dialect that fizzes off the page.’ – The Observer

‘Armstrong’s writing captures what it’s like to be a young, angry man in a way most novels could only dream of. Yet, in spite of the constant violence and disenfranchisement experienced by the characters in the text, there’s a chewy core of hope at the centre of THE YOUNG TEAM to latch onto.’ – Lucas Oakeley, ‘5 Books Redefining Modern Masculinity’, Service95

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Alan Parks’ GUNNER shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book Awards

October 16, 2026 Intern BlakeFriedmann

UPDATE: we are thrilled to announce that GUNNER has advanced to the shortlist for the Fiction Book of the Year prize at Scotland’s National Book Awards, presented by the Saltire Society.

‘This well-executed novel, embodying crisp plot development and fine quality writing with a deep sense of place for the setting and feeling of Glasgow in wartime, stands out in the genre of home-front war stories’, wrote the Saltire Society.

Shortlisted alongside Alan are THE MAN ON THE ENDLESS STAIR by Chris Barklay, THE TWO ROBERTS by Damian Barr, THE MALT WHISKEY MURDERS by Natalie Jayne Clark, HEY MAN by Andrew Meehan, and CAT WUMMAN by Gerda Stevenson. The judges of this year’s fiction prize are Dr Viccy Adams (chair), Stewart Bain, Lesley Glaister, Dr Craig Lamont, Dr Kenny Taylor, and Dr Eleanor Updale.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Edinburgh’s Central Hall on 18 November, presented by Coinneach Macleod, the Hebridean Baker.

You can read more about GUNNER in our previous news story below. Congratulations again, Alan!

GUNNER – the multi-award nominated WW2 thriller by Alan Parks – has been included on the longlist for this year’s Best Fiction prize at Scotland’s National Book Awards, presented by the Saltire Society. One of the world’s oldest running prizes for literature, first awarded in 1937, Scotland’s National Book Awards celebrate the very best of Scottish writing across five categories – Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, First Book and Research – the winners of each competing for the overall Book of the Year prize.

GUNNER, in which a war-wounded cop-turned-soldier returns to a mid-Blitz Glasgow, only to be immediately drawn into a strange and increasingly perilous murder investigation, is published in the UK by Baskerville, an imprint of John Murray, and in the US by Pegasus Books, as well as in translation in Spain, France, Italy and Holland. The book has since been recognised on the shortlist for the CWA Historical Dagger, as well as the longlists for the 2025 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The second book in the series, DECEPTION, is out now – and will be followed by book three, TRAITOR, in Summer 2027.

Longlisted for Best Fiction alongside Alan are Damian Barr, Chris Barkley, Natalie Jayne Clark, CJ Cooke, Maureen Cullen, Andrew Meeehan, Philip Parvis, Zoe Rankin and Gerda Stevenson. The shortlists will be announced in October, ahead of the awards ceremony in late November.

Congratulations Alan!

About GUNNER

‘Great storytelling… I loved it’ – Peter James

‘Great stuff… a vivid sense of place and time and what a main character!’ – Ian Rankin

‘In this superb historical espionage thriller, Parks excels at capturing the brutality of war… Gunner, meanwhile, is a clever, endearing hero whose personal and professional baggage have enough heft to sustain future instalments. This is a winner.’ – Starred Review, Publishers’ Weekly

March, 1941. Joseph Gunner is back on the streets of Glasgow after being wounded on the front lines in France.

Keeping the pain in his leg at bay with the help of morphine, Gunner, a former detective, is hoping to keep his head down as the Luftwaffe begin bombing Glasgow.

But when he runs into his old boss Drummond, he is persuaded to help examine a body found in the wreckage. When the body turns out to be that of a German, mutilated to disguise his identity, Gunner reluctantly agrees to investigate.

As Gunner begins to hunt for the truth he runs into old flames, bitter enemies, before finding himself embroiled in a high-level conspiracy that reaches far beyond his hometown of Glasgow.

Partly inspired by the true story of Rudolph Hess's secret mission to broker appeasement with Britain during WWII, GUNNER is an atmospheric and addictive new thriller from one of Britain's best-loved writers.

About Alan Parks

Alan Parks is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of the Harry McCoy series, which has won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year, the Prix Mystère de la Critique and an Edgar Award. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Joseph Gunner thrillers, an international crime series set during the Second World War.

Alan worked in the music industry for over twenty years before turning to writing. He now lives and works in Glasgow.

Dual-Language Prize and Chart Success for Deon Meyer in South Africa

October 15, 2026 Intern BlakeFriedmann

We are delighted to announce a double success for crime writing titan Deon Meyer in South Africa with his latest book SKORPIO: the first edition, published in Afrikaans, has taken home the ATKV-Woordveertjies awards, celebrating exceptional achievement in Afrikaans literature, in the best thriller category; while the freshly printed English-language translation, titled SCORPIO RISING, has shot straight to the top of the charts.

Deon’s success at the ATKV-Woordveertjies awards repeats the feat he achieved in 2024 for his previous novel LEO. In a statement (translated from Afrikaans), the prize committee said: ‘an internationally renowned thriller writer, Deon Meyer has proven himself to be a master of crime fiction over the past three decades. As a result, each new Meyer novel is subject to exceptionally high expectations: the challenge is no longer simply to write a good thriller, but to continue to surprise within an established and highly recognizable oeuvre (and genre). Meyer succeeds excellently in this with SKORPIO.’

‘The novel once again demonstrates Meyer's extraordinary control over the "architecture" of the suspense story: the fine dosing of information, the alternation between storylines, the manipulation of reader expectations and the gradual convergence of seemingly unrelated events. Particularly striking is the way in which Meyer complicates the moral certainties on which the traditional crime story is based in SKORPIO. The distinction between right and wrong, guilt and innocence, becomes increasingly less obvious.’

Meanwhile, his success in the charts with the new English language edition SCORPIO RISING, translated by K.L. Seegers – taking the top spot in both the Fiction and Overall bestseller lists – continues Deon’s domination of the South African charts, having claimed a 9-week end-of-year run at the top of the South African bestseller lists, including the Christmas #1 with SKORPIO. This latest achievement marks a successful debut for Deon’s new English-language publisher, Pan Macmillan, who will publish SCORPIO RISING in the UK on 11 February 2027, alongside Grove Atlantic in the US and Canada.

Rights have further sold in France (Editions Gallimard), the Netherlands (A W Bruna) and Germany (Aufbau). SKORPIO was first published last year in Afrikaans by Human and Rousseau.

Many congratulations Deon!

In SKORPIO/SCORPIO RISING, when Detective Benny Griessel is assigned the case of a private eye crushed under a BMW in his garage, it looks like a tragic accident. But Benny’s partner, Vaughn Cupido, knew the deceased, and he says it’s murder. Benny would love to have Vaughn’s help on the case, because so far it’s going nowhere. But his partner is stuck wasting his considerable talents investigating the arson of a remote shepherd’s hut.

Then a caravan explodes on a nearby farm, and the identity of the body inside drives the media into a feeding frenzy just a week before an international security forum comes to town.

Suddenly, Griessel and Cupido’s dead-end cases are burning red-hot, and the flames threaten not just their careers, but those dearest to them.

Local and international threats become perilously entwined in this tautly constructed thriller from a master of the form, as Griessel and Cupido race against time to uncover a plot that could challenge global politics at the highest level…

About Deon Meyer

Deon Meyer lives in Stellenbosch, South Africa. His books are sold in 31 countries, and have been awarded many prizes around the world: the Deutsche Krimi Prize in Germany, the ATKV Prize in South Africa, the Martin Beck Award in Sweden and Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and Le Prix Mystère de la Critique in France. COBRA was shortlisted for the 2015 CWA International Dagger, THIRTEEN HOURS was shortlisted for the 2010 CWA International Dagger, and HEART OF THE HUNTER, was longlisted for the 2005 IMPAC Prize and selected as one of Chicago Tribune’s ‘10 best mysteries and thrillers of 2004’. THE DARK FLOOD was longlisted for the 2023 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation. His novels always achieve many weeks at the top of the South African bestseller lists, becoming Number One across all categories and languages.

Adaptations of Deon’s novels have recently had great success on screen: in April 2024, HEART OF THE HUNTER topped the global Netflix film charts, becoming the first African film to do so, with over 11 million views in its first two days alone. DEVIL’S PEAK was also adapted for a miniseries by Lookout Point and Expanded Media Productions, premiering on M-Net in South Africa in 2023 before reaching international audiences. In 2020, TRACKERS, produced by Three River Fiction and Scene 23, aired on Sky Atlantic in the UK and HBO in the USA and the latest thriller to hit the screens is INVISIBLE (adapted from BLOOD SAFARI) an 8-part mini-series starring Abbie Cornish which was launched on M-Net on 14 October 2026.

Praise for SKORPIO

‘Even if he writes a book where Griessel and Cupid just go on holiday without any crime to solve, I will still buy it, read it and add it to my collection… Meyer needs no introduction… I don’t even want to think what he has meant to the Afrikaans book and film industry as a whole. He showed everyone what is possible, and SKORPIO shows how everyone still listens when he speaks. In 2025, a wealth of good suspense literature was published; SKORPIO is the icing on the cake.’ – Stefan Coetzee, LitNet

‘It’s the characters, the humanity and the humour that keeps me devouring Deon Meyer’s novels.’ – Deborah Steinmair, Netwerk24

‘In terms of depth, it is Meyer’s penetrating consideration of the nature of criminality that is surprising… In Meyer we notice the necessary awareness of South Africa’s social diversity. This makes the story nuanced and credible. What is also striking is the compassion with which Meyer treats the characters. This is a novel that is marked by humanity. Even the characters and suspects do not lack the author’s compassion… Ultimately, it is the scope of the story that surprises both the detectives and the reader. The evil that is systemic corruption is strikingly exposed. With the unmistakable Deon Meyer trademark, precise and powerful, SKORPIO is prime crime fiction that captivates to the end’ – Francois Bekker, Netwerk24

Praise for Deon Meyer

‘He’s up there with the best in the world.’ – Marcel Berlins, The Times

‘I love Deon Meyer novels. It’s global storytelling at its best, with the undeniable hallmarks of gritty realism and deep character building.’ – Michael Connelly

‘Deon Meyer's name on the cover is a guarantee of crime writing at its best.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘Deon Meyer is one of the giants of crime fiction.’ – El Mundo

‘One of the best crime writers on the planet.’ – Mail on Sunday

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Deon Meyer’s SKORPIO awarded the SA Book Awards Favourite Bestselling Adult Fiction Prize

September 11, 2026 Intern BlakeFriedmann

UPDATE: We are delighted to announce that SKORPIO has been awarded the Favourite Bestselling Adult Fiction Prize at this year's SA Book Awards – as voted for by booksellers across South Africa – taking home the ZAR 5,000 prize.

Many congratulations Deon!

You can read more about SKORPIO and the awards in our news story below.

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SKORPIO, the latest Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido investigation by bestselling crime sensation Deon Meyer, has advanced to the shortlist for the 26th annual SA Book Awards, in the Favourite Bestselling Adult Fiction category.

Booksellers from across South Africa were invited to vote for their favourite South African-authored books of the year from a longlist of the bestselling titles of 2025, with SKORPIO recognised following an epic 9-week end-of-year run at the top of the South African bestseller lists, claiming the Christmas #1. The awards, powered by NielsenIQ BookData and supported by the Publishers’ Association of South Africa and the SA Booksellers’ Association, strive to celebrate books written and published in South Africa, as voted for by South African booksellers. Each category winner is awarded ZAR 5,000.00 and an overall winner – awarded to Deon in 2024 for previous book LEO – receiving the highest number of votes, is presented with ZAR 20,000.00. The winners were announced at a special virtual award ceremony on 8 September 2026.

The other books on this year’s Adult Fiction shortlist are:

BINNERYM VAN BLOED by Antje Krog
DÉJÀ VU by Chanette Paul
DIE BY THE SWORD by Tony Park
SWEETIE by Nataniël Nataniël

First published last year in Afrikaans by Human and Rousseau, English-language readers won’t have to wait long to enjoy the thrills of SKORPIO for themselves: last week, Pan Macmillan unveiled the cover of their edition, the first to be published by Pan Macmillan following a six-figure swoop for the UK and Commonwealth English-language rights. Titled SCORPIO RISING (translated by K.L. Seegers), it will be published in South Africa in October this year, and in the UK on 11 February 2027, alongside Grove Atlantic in the US and Canada. Rights have further sold in France (Editions Gallimard), the Netherlands (A W Bruna) and Germany (Aufbau).

In SKORPIO/SCORPIO RISING, when two seemingly disparate investigations collide, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido must race against time to solve both before it is too late.

When Detective Benny Griessel is assigned the case of a private eye crushed under a BMW in his garage, it looks a lot like suicide. But Benny’s partner, Vaughn Cupido, knew the deceased, and he says it’s murder. Benny would love to have Vaughn’s help on the case, because so far it’s going nowhere. But his partner is stuck wasting his considerable talents investigating the arson of a remote shepherd’s hut.

Then a caravan explodes on a nearby farm, and the identity of the body inside drives the media into a feeding frenzy just a week before an international security forum comes to town. Suddenly, Griessel and Cupido’s dead-end cases are burning red-hot, and the flames threaten not just their careers, but those dearest to them.

About Deon Meyer

Deon Meyer lives in Stellenbosch. His books are sold in 31 countries, and have been awarded many prizes around the world: the Deutsche Krimi Prize in Germany, the ATKV Prize in South Africa, the Martin Beck Award in Sweden and Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and Le Prix Mystère de la Critique in France. COBRA was shortlisted for the 2015 CWA International Dagger, THIRTEEN HOURS was shortlisted for the 2010 CWA International Dagger, and HEART OF THE HUNTER, was longlisted for the 2005 IMPAC Prize and selected as one of Chicago Tribune’s ‘10 best mysteries and thrillers of 2004’. THE DARK FLOOD was longlisted for the 2023 CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation. His latest novel LEO, a new Benny Griessel thriller, enjoyed ten weeks at the top of the South African bestseller lists, Number One in all categories.

Adaptations of Deon’s novels have recently had great success on screen: in April 2024, HEART OF THE HUNTER topped the global Netflix film charts, becoming the first African film to do so, with over 11 million views in its first two days alone. DEVIL’S PEAK was also adapted for a miniseries by Lookout Point and Expanded Media Productions, premiering on M-Net in South Africa in 2023 before reaching audiences in the USA, New Zealand, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. In 2020, TRACKERS, produced by Three River Fiction and Scene 23, aired on Sky Atlantic in the UK and HBO in the USA, as well as Australia and New Zealand, and across the Nordic countries and Europe.

Praise for SKORPIO

‘It’s the characters, the humanity and the humour that keeps me devouring Deon Meyer’s novels.’ – Deborah Steinmair, Netwerk24

Praise for Deon Meyer

‘He’s up there with the best in the world.’ – Marcel Berlins, The Times

‘I love Deon Meyer novels. It’s global storytelling at its best, with the undeniable hallmarks of gritty realism and deep character building.’ – Michael Connelly

‘Deon Meyer's name on the cover is a guarantee of crime writing at its best.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘Deon Meyer is one of the giants of crime fiction.’ – El Mundo

‘One of the best crime writers on the planet.’ – Mail on Sunday

Visit Deon’s website

Follow Deon on Twitter