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Benny Griessel

Book Review: The Last Hunt by Deon Meyer

By Ray Palen

May 5, 2020

When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel’s desk, he and his partner Vaughn Cupido, a fellow member of an elite police unit in South Africa, reluctantly set to work reviewing the evidence of the possible murder of an ex-cop on the world’s most luxurious train.  When you read about South Africa you…

Julie Andews as Maria in The Sound of Music

Deon Meyer’s South Africa and the Bliss of Gritty Procedurals

By Amy Dalton

June 30, 2011

Oh, the bliss of finding a new author you like! Who has multiple books! I feel like Maria at the beginning of Sound of Music—running and spinning around. I got a copy of Deon Meyer’s Thirteen Hours a year ago. I never even cracked the cover. I don’t know why. The cover copy makes it…

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