The Score

In this fabulous follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The Lazarus Effect, newspaper reporter Vee Johnson reprises her role as Cape Town’s most feisty female investigator. Vee and her ever-faithful sidekick, Chlöe Bishop, have been banished from the City Chronicle newsroom to review a tourist lodge in sleepy Oudtshoorn.

But Vee and Chlöe are barely checked into their rooms when the first body is discovered, hanging from a tree with Vee’s purple silk scarf used as a noose. Is it suicide or strangulation?

As Vee investigates the death, she is pulled into a bewildering world of conferences and corruption, dog-walking and drug addiction, break-ins and Black Economic Empowerment, all while juggling the two men in her love life.

The Score is a unique combination of sex, intrigue and subterfuge, set against the fading colours of the Rainbow Nation.