Zulu

A Cape Town cop takes on the media-frenzied murder of a young woman in this "hard-hitting procedural, which won France's Grand Prix for Best Crime Novel" (Publishers Weekly).

As a child, Ali Neuman ran away from home to escape the Inkatha, a militant political party at war with the then-underground African National Congress. He and his mother are the only members of his family who survived the carnage of those years. Today, Neuman is chief of the homicide branch of the Cape Town police, a...