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"Fast and pitch perfect," says Mike Nicol about Irna van Zyl's third crime novel, Bloodstone, which unfolds at a heart-stopping pace. All hell breaks loose when Detective Storm van der Merwe's mother is pushed under a train at Paddington Station. Storm must rush to London, even though she's in the middle of a murder investigation: leading South African fashion designer Beebee Bukelwa Babu has been found dead in a luxury Hermanus hotel.Assembling a team to investigate Beebee's death is proving difficult in a town crippled by protest action and in the gripng charismatic prophet firing up crowds to hysteria.Storm soon realises that her mother was a deliberate target. And she is one too.Meanwhile Storm's former colleague, the bumbling Andreas Moerdyk, now a PI, is doing his best to locate a missing and very valuable red diamond.