The Score

In this fabulous follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The Lazarus Effect, newspaper reporter Vee Johnson returns as Cape Town's most feisty female investigator. Vee and her ever-faithful sidekick, Chlöe Bishop, have been banished from City Chronicle's newsroom to review a tourist lodge in sleepy Oudtshoorn. But Vee and Chlöe are barely checked in to their rooms when the first body is discovered... hanging from a tree, with Vee's purple silk scarf used as a noose. But is it suicide or strangulation? As Vee investigates the death, she is pulled into a bewildering world of conferences and corruption, dog-walking and drug addiction, break-ins and black economic empowerment. And all this whilst juggling the two men in her love life. A combination of sex, intrigue and subterfuge, The Score is set against the fading colours of South Africa's Rainbow dream.

Hawa Jande Golakai is a German-born Liberian and a medical immunologist by training. She writes from her experiences as a refugee, scientist and contemporary nomad, a life that has fostered an intense passion for crime and twisted fiction. Hawa was listed by the Hay Festival in the Africa39 list of the most promising sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40. She was the winner of the 2017 Brittle Paper Award for nonfiction and longlisted for the 2019 NOMMO Award for speculative fiction. Currently, she lives with her son between Monrovia and anywhere she finds herself.