Benny Griessel novels

It's early morning in Cape Town and Benny Griessel, homicide detective with the South African police service, has a bad feeling. He's been sober for 156 days. But day 157 is going to be very tough. A teenage girl's body has been found on the street, her throat cut. Griessel has been assigned to mentor a young detective on the case. It turns out the girl was American - a P.R. nightmare in South Africa's #1 tourist destination - and she wasn't alone....

"When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel's desk, he and his partner Vaughn Cupido, fellow member of the Hawks elite police unit in South Africa, reluctantly set to work reviewing the evidence of the disappearance-and possible murder-of ex-cop Johnson Johnson on the world's most luxurious train line. Two fellow travelers might have the answers Griessel and Cupido need-but they too seem to have disappeared into thin air, and the few...

Early on a May morning in the depth of South Africa's winter, a woman's naked body, washed in bleach, is discovered on a stone wall beside the N2 highway at the top of Sir Lowry's Pass, some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is referred to Captain Benny Griessel and his colorful partner Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks--the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations. The woman proves to be Alicia Lewis, an...