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Exciting news for South African readers... the new Jade de Jong thriller, Worst Case, is launching in August 2011. This book will be published as The Fallen in the USA in April 2012. It has received a wonderful blurb from Tess Gerritsen, who described it as "A white-knuckle thriller with an utterly chilling finale and twists you'll never anticipate. I raced through this book and wanted more!"

To read the first chapter of Worst Case / The Fallen,
click here.

More good news is that all my books are now on Kindle, both in South Africa and internationally. Random Violence and Stolen Lives are available as audiobooks, and will also be published in book form in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Stolen Lives, which launched in the USA in April 2011, has been receiving some great reviews, including a starred review from Library Journal. Publishers Weekly describes it as a "fine second crime novel", and in a detailed write-up on The Rap Sheet on the Kirkus Reviews blog, J. Kingston Pierce says "this second Jade de Jong detective novel outshines her debut", while Diane Gardner from Foreword Reviews describes it as "a fascinating read with a strong heart."
Worst Case - South Africa
The Fallen - USA and internationally

P.I. Jade de Jong's holiday becomes a nightmare when a dive instructor at the scuba resort is found brutally stabbed to death. The only clue is a cryptic postcard in her room. Jade and her estranged lover David Patel put aside their differences and start the hunt, uncovering a massive organised crime operation and a chain of events leading from a horror crash in North Africa to the St Lucia estuary. Jade soon finds herself in a deadly race to prevent an act of environmental sabotage that could destroy this world heritage site. Death is knocking on the door, and love and cunning is all she has left to fight it.

"A white-knuckle thriller with an utterly chilling finale and twists you'll never anticipate. I raced through this book and wanted more!" - Tess Gerritsen

Read the first chapter here

    My Brother’s Keeper
Stolen Lives

"a fascinating read with
a strong heart."

-- Foreword Reviews

"this second Jade de Jong detective novel outshines her debut"
-- J. Kingston Pierce

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Random Violence

"A sexy new feminine sleuth... and a truly dreadful crime. A fast-paced must-read."
-- Johan Muller

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009 – Best First
Book Africa Region
My Brother’s Keeper

“Truly compelling…
A smart, page-turning
thriller populated with living, breathing characters, one of the most memorable being Jo’burg itself.”

-- Jeffery Deaver


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