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Stellenbosch-based Karin started writing crime novels after a 30-year career in print journalism. Her books have been published in Afrikaans, English, German, French and Dutch. She has won the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, two M-Net awards, and an ATKV prize for prose. Homeland is her third novel.

THE CHILD IN ROOM 9

It was during one of the Kalahari’s raging February storms that Kytie Rooi committed a murder.

It happened so fast, so silently, that at first her mind didn’t register: the man making a single, surprised sound. He slid limply from his chair to the floor, landing on his knees and face. For a

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