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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Crime & Thrillers, Fiction, Local Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781776380756
Published: April 2024
Imprint: Penguin Books (South Africa)
Page Extent: 244
Format: e-Book
RRP 270.00

Present Tense

Natalie Conyer

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Veteran cop Schalk Lourens is trying to put the past behind him. But when his old boss, retired police chief Piet Pieterse is murdered, Schalk finds history has a way of infecting everything.

Meanwhile, it’s also an election year. People are pinning their hopes on charismatic ANC candidate Gideon Radebe but there’s opposition and in this volatile country, unrest is never far from the surface.

Schalk must tread a difficult path between the new regime and the old, between the personal and the professional, between justice and revenge.

Present Tense is a riveting hard-boiled police procedural set in modern South Africa.

About the Author

Natalie Conyer

Natalie Conyer

Natalie Conyer was born and grew up in Cape Town, but has lived in Sydney for many years. She’s a crime fiction tragic, so much so she did a doctorate in it. Natalie’s debut novel, Present Tense, won the 2020 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction. It was shortlisted for the Davitt Awards in both debut and general sections, and voted one of the books of the year by The Australian. Its sequel, Shadow City, will be out in September 2024. Natalie’s short stories have won many prizes in the annual Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Competition. They have featured in anthologies, and a collection of her short stories will be published in 2024

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