Present Tense
$32.75
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2024
Summary
Cape Town, South Africa. Retired police chief Piet Pieterse has been murdered, necklaced in fact. A tyre placed round his neck, doused with petrol, set alight. An execution from the apartheid era and one generally confined to collaborators. Who would target Pieterse this way, and why now?
Veteran cop Schalk Lourens is trying to forget the past. But Pieterse was his old boss and when Schalk is put on the case, he finds the past has a way of infecting the present.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760689681 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760689688 |
| Author: | Natalie Conyer |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Echo Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 364g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Natalie Conyer
Natalie Conyer was born and grew up in Cape Town, but has lived in Sydney for many years.
Present Tense is Natalie’s debut novel, a hard-boiled police procedural set in Cape Town and featuring Schalk Lourens, an ordinary cop trying to find his way in a thrilling and dangerous country. It won Australia’s prestigious Ned Kelly Award for the best debut crime novel of 2020, was shortlisted for the Davitt Awards and was nominated one of 2020’s best reads by the national newspaper, The Australian.
The second Schalk Lourens book, Shadow City, was published in Australia in 2024.
Natalie’s short stories have won several awards and been featured in anthologies such as The Only One in the World and Dark Deeds Down Under Volume 2.
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