Beschrijving
In the town of Stellenrust, silence is a currency, and death is just a transaction.
When Elias Mbeki arrives for his first week as the new municipal manager, he walks straight into a nightmare: the Mayor is dead in his study, a suicide note neatly placed on the desk. The police chief calls it a tragedy brought on by the pressures of office. The town is ready to move on.
But Elias sees what others miss. The body is too composed. The scene is too perfect. And the antique key found in the Mayor’s possession doesn’t fit a single door in City Hall.
Driven by a suspicion he can’t shake, Elias teams up with Daniel Pretorius, a disgraced journalist with a vendetta, and Thandi Jacobs, a forensic investigator hunting the ghost of her own father—a legendary state assassin known only as \