Karin Brynard
Agent: Isobel Dixon
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Experienced political correspondent, now a bestselling South African crime writer. She burst onto the scene with her Afrikaans debut, PLAASMOORD (WEEPING WATERS), characterful literary crime in the Scandinavian mould.
Human & Rousseau published PLAASMOORD and ONSE VADERS in Afrikaans. Penguin South Africa publish the English editions as WEEPING WATERS and OUR FATHERS, and HOMELAND (TUISLAND). Her books are also sold in Holland and France.
Praise for Karin Brynard:
‘Brooding. Riveting. Brilliant.’ — Deon Meyer
Awards:
University of Johannesburg Debut Prize for Creative Writing (2009) – Plaasmoord (Weeping Waters)
M-Net Literature Award in the film category (2010) – Plaasmoord (Weeping Waters)
M-Net Literature Award in the film category (2013) – Onse Vaders (Our Father)
ATKV Literature Prize (2013 – Onse Vaders (Our Father)
Longlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize (2015) – Plaasmoord (Weeping Waters)
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WEEPING WATERS
Thriller, 360 pages
Penguin (SA), 2014
Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatised cop who has fled from the mean streets of Johannesburg to the quiet of a rural community on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, only to find that violence knows no geographical boundaries.
ONSE VADERS (English: OUR FATHERS)
Thriller, 504 pages
Human & Rousseau (SA), October 2012
Albertus Beeslaar goes to leafy university town Stellenbosch to visit an old friend and mentor, only to find himself at a funeral instead, and drawn into the murder investigation of a local high society wife.
HOMELAND
Thriller, 405 pages
Penguin Random House SA, May 2018
Beeslaar is ready to resign and return to Joburg, where new
work, a baby daughter and chance to resolve things with the mother, Gerda, await. But things do not go as planned and he is drawn into burning issues around land rights, with lives at stake. Another masterful multi-stranded crime thriller.