Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weeping Waters | 2009 | Karin Brynard | Buy |
The Inspector Beeslaar series opens with Weeping Waters (2009), set in an isolated farming community in South Africa’s Northern Cape. Inspector Beeslaar has left a difficult past in Johannesburg for a quieter post, but his plans for a peaceful life are shattered when a local artist and her adopted daughter are murdered.
The investigation exposes racial tensions, community secrets, and violence that runs deeper than the initial crime. Weeping Waters won the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize and earned Brynard the label of “the Afrikaans Stieg Larsson” from South African critics.