Staring Into The Shadows
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Last published Wed, May 6, 2020
Staring Into The Shadows is a police procedural thriller, set in South Africa. We follow partners, and friends, SAPS Detectives Fikile Jafta and Jacques van Tonder as they investigate the gruesome murder of a young woman in Durban. She's dressed in a bizarre outfit and appears to have been ritually sacrificed.
The body count soon ramps up and the two detectives face the possibility that they have a serial killer on their hands!
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