Blood Stone - Irna van Zyl

All hell breaks loose when Detective Storm van der Merwes mom is pushed under a train at Paddington Station. Storm must rush to London, even though shes in the middle of a murder investigation: leading South African fashion designer Beebee Bukelwa Babu was found dead in a luxury Hermanus hotel.

 Drumming up a team to investigate Beebees death is proving difficult in a town crippled by protest action and in the grip of a menacing charismatic prophet firing up crowds to hysteria. Storm soon realises that her mom was a deliberate target. And she is one too.

 Meanwhile Storms former colleague, the bumbling Andreas Moerdyk, now a PI, is doing his best to locate a missing and very valuable red diamond.

 From the murky streets of London to the diamond bourse in Antwerp, from secluded Port Nolloth to Storms beloved Hermanus, Irna van Zyls third crime novel unfolds at a heart-stopping pace.

ISBN: 9781485904250

Pages: 378

Trade paperback

Penguin Random House SA, 2020

Good condition; cover has some small creases

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