The woman in the blue cloak - Deon Meyer (Benny Griessel #5.5)

THE WOMAN IN THE BLUE CLOAK IS A BRILLIANT INVESTIGATION WHICH WILL THRILL AND ENTERTAIN FANS OF DEON MEYER'S MUCH-LOVED DETECTIVE BENNY GRIESSEL.

Benny is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. That means he needs to buy an engagement ring – and that means he needs a loan.  

So Benny has a lot on his mind when he is called to a top-priority murder case. A woman’s body is discovered, naked and washed in bleach, draped on a wall beside a picturesque road above Cape Town. The identity of the victim is a mystery, as is the reason for her killing.  

Gradually, Benny and his colleague Vaughn Cupido begin to work out the roots of the story, which reach as far away as England and Holland . . . and as far back as the seventeenth century.