There are 8 books in the Benny Griessel Mysteries series. The newest book is Leo which came out in 2025.

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick

The former freedom fighter known as 'Tiny' has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life. But then his beloved son is taken away from him. In that moment, he unleashes…

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A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!

Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award 2010

They killed her best friend. Now they are chasing Rachel Anderson through the streets of Cape Town. The young tourist doesn't dare trust anyone - except her father, back home…

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Seven Days

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From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick

I'll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet.

Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot by a…

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Cobra

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From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick

Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead?…

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Icarus

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Selected by Marcel Berlins in The Times as one of the 50 best crime novels of the last 50 years: 'Deon Meyer is acclaimed for his portrayals of crime and the police after the end of apartheid. Non-white detectives hold positions once monopolised by their white bosses, and the tensions…

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The Last Hunt

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'The undisputed champion of South African crime. Meyer grabs you but the throat and never lets you go' Wilbur Smith

'From its startling opening to its tense and thrilling conclusion, Deon Meyer's The Last Hunt takes you on a whirlwind safari across two continents. In the whole of the Benny…

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The Dark Flood

By Deon Meyer , K.L. Seegers (translator) ,

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Disappearances ensnare two South African detectives in a web of corruption in this stunning thriller by the Barry Award–winning author of The Last Hunt.
 
Assigned to investigate the disappearance of a young university student and brilliant computer programmer detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido hit dead ends. But the trail—including…

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Leo

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“Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters.”—Michael Connelly

“Deon Meyer's name on the cover is a guarantee of crime writing at its best.”—Tess Gerritsen

In a corrupt South Africa, the criminals are as likely to be in government—or even in the police—as on the streets.

Two decorated detectives must…