The Lazarus Effect

Dedicated marketing and publicity spend - publicist to be engaged to promote this title. Advance Reading copies available early for reviewers and stores National media targets include crime fiction editors and reviewers in national dailies and magazines, and trade magazines Author articles and interviews at time of publication Excerpts in selected publications Announcement e-mails to be sent to independent bookstores and book clubs, crime bloggers and websites High profile social media campaign to coincide with launch. Twitter and Facebook campaign by publisher, author and PR agent, to include contests and giveaways. Cassava Republic has has strong social media presence - over 16k followers on Facebook. Bookstore co-op available

When Vee spots a photo of the girl from her hallucinations at a local hospital, she launches an investigation, under the pretext of writing an article about missing children. With the help of her oddball assistant Chloe Bishop, she's soon delving into the secrets of the fractured Fourie and Paulsen families.Voinjama Johnson is an investigative journalist for the Cape Town magazine Urban. Her life is a mess and Vee's been seeing things: a teenage girl in a red hat that goes hand-in-hand with the debilitating episodes she is loath to call 'panic attacks'.When Vee spots a photo of the girl from her hallucinations at a local hospital, she launches an investigation, under the pretext of writing an article about missing children. With the help of her oddball assistant Chloe Bishop, she's soon delving into the secrets of the fractured Fourie and Paulsen families. What happened to Jacqui Paulsen, who left home two years ago and hasn't been seen since?The Lazarus Effect is a gripping new addition to the African crime genre from a talented debut author.