* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): Paperback
* Description: Hell of a Country is a creative reimagining of the Scissors Murder – a famous crime from early 1970s South Africa.
Eighteen-year-old Lorraine van Niekerk despises the fact that her boss and lover, middle-aged André Bekker, won’t leave his wife, Sunette, and marry her instead. Then one day her life fatefully intersects with driver Alfie Geemooi, a recent amputee who is on the run from the police.
André is an orthopaedic technician, and Lorraine can grant access to the prosthesis Alfie desperately needs – but at one hell of a price...
A pacy, poetic novel told from multiple points of view, Hell of a Country is a riveting true-crime story that examines the fault lines between power and desire.
* Language (for non-English books): English
* Link to book page which includes the cover and other books data on a NON-BOOKSELLER site, such as a publisher site, an author site, etc.: https://www.nb.co.za/en/view-book/?id...
* Author(s) name(s): David Cornwell (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...)
* ISBN (or ASIN): ISBN 978-0-7957-1113-8
* Publisher: Kwela Books
* Publication Date Year: 2025
* Publication Date Month: August
* Publication Date Day: 22
* Page count: 224
* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): Paperback
* Description: Hell of a Country is a creative reimagining of the Scissors Murder – a famous crime from early 1970s South Africa.
Eighteen-year-old Lorraine van Niekerk despises the fact that her boss and lover, middle-aged André Bekker, won’t leave his wife, Sunette, and marry her instead. Then one day her life fatefully intersects with driver Alfie Geemooi, a recent amputee who is on the run from the police.
André is an orthopaedic technician, and Lorraine can grant access to the prosthesis Alfie desperately needs – but at one hell of a price...
A pacy, poetic novel told from multiple points of view, Hell of a Country is a riveting true-crime story that examines the fault lines between power and desire.
* Language (for non-English books): English
* Link to book page which includes the cover and other books data on a NON-BOOKSELLER site, such as a publisher site, an author site, etc.: https://www.nb.co.za/en/view-book/?id...