New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, set in a small university town in South Africa, winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region). "Brown skillfully creates a handful of compelling and well-drawn characters and offers a plausible sense of a country still consumed by racial tensions and suspicion of immigrants from other African nations. American devotees of international crime fiction will embrace the emotionally scarred Eberard and the fractious society that is at once exotic and all too familiar. (Booklist) "A thriller novel that functions both as a superb mystery and an engrossing historical fiction. It marks Andrew Brown out as a superb talent. (author John Connolly) Recommended. List of sources. 262 pp. ISBN: 978-1250035998.