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    Seven Days
    Seven Days
    Seven Days
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    Seven Days

    Written by Deon Meyer

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    When Deon Meyer#8217;s Thirteen Hours won the Barry Award for Best Thriller, one of international crime fiction#8217;s most electrifying writers finally began to get the American attention he so richly deserves. With seven novels published in twenty languages (all available on audio from HighBridge), Meyer has set countless hearts racing with gripping stories that mix the violence, politics, natural beauty, and history of his native South Africa.#160;In Thirteen Hours, homicide detective Bennie Griessel struggled to solve the murder of an American girl, find her missing friend, and avoid drinking again, all in a single day. In Seven Days, Griessel is given another nearly impossible task. Two police officers have been shot, and the department has received an e-mail from the shooter alleging a cover up in a cold case. He threatens more violence until the case is solved.#160;#160;The case in question is the murder of Hanneke Sloet, an ambitious lawyer stabbed to death in her luxury apartment. There#8217;s no apparent motive and no leads, just a set of nude photographs and an ex-boyfriend with a rock-solid alibi. Then more policemen are shot and the pressure mounts. Can Bennie solve the case and stay sober? Seven Days is a gripping adventure by a fantastic writer at the top of his game.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateSep 4, 2012
    ISBN9781611749991
    Author

    Deon Meyer

    Internasionaal bekende skrywer Deon Meyer woon op Stellenbosch. Sy publikasies sluit in dertien misdaadromans (onder meer Spoor, 2010, 7 Dae, 2011, Kobra, 2013, Ikarus, 2015, Koors, 2016, Prooi, 2018, en Donkerdrif, 2020). Orion, Proteus en Infanta is met die ATKV-prosaprys bekroon en Prooi met die ATKV-prys vir Spanningsfiksie.

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    • 5/5
      Thrilling, realistic, exciting, and we'll developed characters. Benny continues to be interesting.
    • 4/5
      Exciting, nail-biting police procedural set in post-apartheid South Africa. The racially-integrated "Hawks" and other police divisions set out to solve the cold-case murder of a woman lawyer who was involved in a complicated business deal. Against them is a sniper who is picking off policemen one by one. Race against the clock to outwit the sniper and solve the crime. I just had to keep reading to find out who the sniper was. I was glad for glossary of Afrikaans and native terms to which I often referred.Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      One of my favourite writers.

      For me, one of the key attractions of Deon Meyer’s books is the way he brings to life the real people of South Africa.

      A very taut police procedural. Shows a panoramic picture of modern South Africa. But just a few pages of this book will show that even though Meyer has set his sights lower here, he is simply too good a writer to produce anything by the numbers. In fact, if he'd written only books as concise as this, he’d still be above average.

      Only “Trackers†remains to be read and I intend to correct it as soon as possible.

      Reading one of his books in English makes me want to take up Afrikaans…
    • 3/5
      Uninspired.Deon Meyer has a huge following, so I had expected more from my first Meyer novel. He is one of very few authors writing in Afrikaans and I was looking forward to getting a feel for life in South Africa from his point of view. Several of us read this for a book group, as the author will be visiting our literary festival in March, but we were unanimous in our disappointment. One lady, herself hailing from South Africa, commented that she couldn't see how anyone from other parts of the world could appreciate the nuances that were buried within the writing. I thought I'd followed most of the translations until I reached the glossary at the end, when I realised just how many meanings had gone over my head. (why are glossaries at the end, now that we all read using Kindles - it's too late to discover them by the time you've finished the book?!)Bennie Griessel is your classic, cliched, recovering alcoholic policeman. He is forced to reopen a cold murder case when a gunman threatens to shoot one policeman per day, for every day the murder remains unsolved. The crime involves a lawyer, Hanneke Sloet, who was working on a huge case involving the empowerment of blacks and with possible shady dealings.Griessel has troublesome teenage children and a love interest who is also a recovering alcoholic. During the Seven Days of the title he must juggle the further demands of trying to keep his girlfriend from the bottle, persuade his son that he doesn't want to get a tattoo and come to terms with the hulk that seems to be his daughter's boyfriend. But I just couldn't drum up any interest in whether he succeeded or not.The eventual outcome of the who-done-it was disappointing and aspects of the case continue to confuse me.I was constantly wondering about the ethnicity of the characters, which would be obvious just by their names to a native South African, and I didn't feel I learned much about policing in South Africa, other than that it was corrupt.No more Deon Meyer for me.
    • 4/5
      Dean Meyer delivers another great entry in the Benny Griessel series. Reading about South African crime, policing, and politics from a South African perspective feels a bit like playing armchair, world-traveling detective. As usual Meyer conveys the tension that flows just under the civilized surface in Cape Town, while also imbuing the city with warmth, humanity, and hope. Somehow, even though Meyer's books focus on the worst crimes you can imagine, he makes me want to visit SA. While the South African aspects of the book are foreign to me, Benny is a universal character - recovering alcoholic, trying to come to terms with his ex-wife and her new husband, struggling to connect with his kids as they enter adulthood.In Seven Days, Benny is re-investigating the case of a beautiful lawyer who has been stabbed to death in her apartment. The police are accused of botching the case the first time around, now Benny is trying again. To encourage the police to act quickly, a sniper starts shooting members of the police - one a day until the killer is caught. Given Benny's history, he runs about even odds of either solving the case or falling off the wagon.Although the sniper plot pushes the investigate forward, the plot doesn't progress as smoothly. Other Meyer books have kept be glued to the pages all the way to the end. With Seven Days, I found it easy to put down and come back later. Still a good book, but not the most compelling of the series. It's definitely worth reading, but if you are new to Meyer's work, don't start with this book.
    • 5/5
      Deon Meyer is an author I've been anxious to read for quite some time and now thanks to Amazon Vine, I have. He lives in South Africa and this book is set there, a place I've never been but now have some insight into because of this book.Police Detective Benny Griessel is the hero of the story, although he would never think of himself in such terms. He is a recovering alcoholic who is divorced, has trouble trying to relate to his teenage kids, has been transferred to another division perhaps as punishment for drinking, and is inclined to think of himself as a failure. He is falling in love with a talented and beautiful singer, also an alcoholic who keeps falling off the wagon. He tries to help her, then again feels like a failure because he can't tend to her and still keep up with his new assignment.That assignment is the crux of the story. A sniper in a white van shoots a policeman in the leg. He has been sending emails to the police threatening to do so if they don't reveal their knowledge about who murdered a young businesswoman months earlier. Actually the police are stumped; they have no idea who killed her. Setting Griessel on the case, they heed the sniper's warning that he will shoot a cop every day for seven days unless they arrest the killer. Talk about stress.Reading Seven Days isn't easy like reading a light cozy. This case is difficult and it isn't made easy for the reader either. I was confused off and on but doggedly stuck with it because I just couldn't let it go without finding out who, and most importantly why. The characterizations are so good that even though this is a different culture with unique customs, I felt like I got to know them all, even the sniper. This has made me want to travel to South Africa someday. Well, I already wanted to since my husband's grandfather lived there for many years, but now I'm very curious about the country. And I intend to read Meyer's other novels as well.Recommended reading for police procedural lovers.Source: Amazon Vine
    • 4/5
      Another very good book by Deon Meyer in the Bennie Greissel series. An attractive young woman has been found murdered in an expensive flat in Cape Town. The investigation has cooled due to lack of evidence and suspects but then there is a threatening email that a cop will be shot every day until the killer of the young woman is arrested. It is this threat and subsequent incidents that provide the tension and urgency for the story. And it is somewhat reminiscent of the killers who shot random victims over a period of weeks in the Washington, DC region a few years back. Having lived through that experience as a resident of McLean Virginia I would have to say that "Seven Days" does not create the same level of emotion as the DC experience for obvious reasons, but also because in DC the victims were from the population at large, e.g. people shot while pumping gas, and most were fatalities. In "Seven Days" there is a nice back story involving Alex, Bennie's gf also with a drinking problem (can this relationship work? anybody see "Days of Wine and Roses"?). And what resonated with me is how Bennie suddenly feels overwhelmed by all the new technologies and apps that everyone except him seems to know and use. Despite all the goodies here, I just didn't enjoy this story (perhaps too much detail of financial partnerships)as much as other DM books and found it was very easy to put down after short periods.
    • 4/5
      The story opens with a man accusing the police department of a cover-up of the murder of Henneke Sloet-an attractive attorney who was stabbed to death in her luxury apartment.With the delay in the investigation, the man begins shooting policemen. He sends emails, quoting the Bible and stating that he will continue to shoot police officers until they arrest Sloet's killer.South African homicide detective Benny Griessel is assigned to the case. He's a member of the Hawks. This is a specialized group within the South African police department for high profile cases.He's a recovering alcoholic and dating a woman who is also an alcoholic. He intended to spend time with her to get her through the battle to turn to alcohol but this case takes much of his time.His team learns that Sloet worked for a law firm that handled a major transaction with a black-only owned business. There was a questionable investment and his team researches public pension funds and the manner in which someone is appointed to the board who will be sympathetic to a vote in favor of a questionable item.Benny has doubts about his abilities but he's a hard worker. His actions make the reader sympathetic and root for his success.The story is told at a liesurly pace which seems to represent the style of life in South Africa. However, underneath that relaxed pace is a heart pounding effort to find a killer.