Irna Van Zyl: 4 books

’n Grieselige gesig begroet speuradjudant Storm van der Merwe en haar hond op Grootbaai se strand: die lyk van ’n jong joernalis – sonder haar arm. Vir dié kusdorpie se inwoners is dit slegte nuus; lyke wat rondlê kan die haaiduikbedryf waarvoor Grootbaai beroemd is, erge skade berokken. Storm...

Speuradjudant Storm van der Merwe is op die toneel toe ’n gehate kosblogger dié middag in een van Hermanus se spoggerige restaurante dood neerslaan. Dit blyk die giftige sampioene in die vrou se kos is selfs dodeliker as haar vlymskerp resensies. Dit is maar net die begin van Storm se probleme:...

Detective Storm van der Merwe is walking her dog on the beach when she makes a gruesome discovery: the body of a young journalist – missing a limb. For the residents of Grootbaai, corpses are bad for business: thousands of tourists from all over the world flock to this coastal town to shark-cage...

When a notorious food blogger drops dead in a fancy Hermanus restaurant right in front of Detective Storm van der Merwe, Storm finds herself at the centre of a rotten mess: the blogger’s killer meal was laced with death cups, a mushroom more poisonous than even her most toxic restaurant review....