Accolades and interviews for Margie Orford as DADDY'S GIRL is published in South Africa

Recent weeks have seen a fine array of interviews with Margie Orford and review quotes for DADDY'S GIRL, published in South Africa by Jonathan Ball in September.

Have a listen here to Margie Orford's excellent interview with Jenny Crwys-Williams, South Africa's radio book critic queen, who says of DADDY'S GIRL: 'Superlative…One of the most chilling books on crime that I have ever read…I found this book absolutely terrifying…I couldn't put it down, I read it in one day…Cracking entertainment - a knockout.'

The interview isn't just fascinating for what Margie has to say about DADDY'S GIRL, but also for her insights into working with maximum security prisoners at Victor Verster Prison, a creative writing programme which resulted in a book of their work FIFTEEN MEN.

Margie also talks about her work with the acclaimed artist Kathryn Smith, creating haunting artworks made as if by one of Margie's future characters: Sophie Brown, a damaged, talented, promiscuous artist, will be a key character in the next Clare Hart thriller, THE QUARRY, which has already resulted in a film of this collaboration on SABC TV, and a Kathryn Smith exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. Click here to see more on this.

Please also click here for another podcast of an interview Tymon Smith did with Margie for the SA Sunday Times.
 

More praise for DADDY'S GIRL:
 
'A perfectly paced plot…Orford's books often have the knack of being impossible to let go of.'        
-- Natalie Bosman, The Citizen

'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

'Orford is one of a select club of South African crime writers who have built an international reading audience. One can see why: she delights in perfectly rendered local colour and lingo, her characters are convincing, the setting - a police force in messy and sometimes dysfunctional transformation - is conveyed with unflinching honesty, and she writes with verve and a crackling energy.'
-- William Saunderson Meyer, Business Day - The Weekender

'Margie Orford is guilty of writing a very, very good thriller. Sophisticated plotting, great characters, raw emotions, a satisfying resolution, respectful of, but not slavish to, the genre.'
-- John Maytham, Cape Talk radio host and critic

'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…Thriller fans will be delighted by this, the latest Clare Hart novel. But, as I said before, the Cape tourist industry, and sections of the South African police, I suspect, will not.'
-- Anthony Egan, Mail and Guardian

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