Dead Before Dying by Deon Meyer - ZOOM

Set in post-Apartheid Cape Town, Dead Before Dying is both a psychological thriller and a character driven page-turner. Insecure police captain Mat Joubert is struggling to heal from his wife’s death a few years earlier. A new series of crimes challenges Joubert to pull himself together. Seemingly unrelated men are being murdered with a century-old German handgun – with the original and powerful bullets. Meanwhile, a series of bank robberies are being pulled off by a weirdly polite perpetrator. The intense prose will keep you reading until the unexpected ending.