For the next few weeks, we’ll be spotlighting our upcoming releases for the new year. You’ll learn a bit about our 2021 releases, their authors, and information about pre-ordering.
Since our founding, part of our mission has been to show thriller readers the wonders of South African crime fiction. Our first two releases were thrillers, after all. We’ve loved them from the beginning. We couldn’t be happier to add another title to our African Crime Reads Series—place-based crime and thriller novels set in locations throughout the continent— Divine Justice by Joanne Hichens.
Joanne is a writer and editor who lives outside of Cape Town, South Africa. Her work has been published in O Magazine, Real Simple, several anthologies, and more. Divine Justice is the first book in her Rae Valentine series, and we think you’re going to love Rae.
Rae Valentine is a newly-minted private investigator. She’s also fresh off a breakup, a recovering addict, and struggling to heal from a past trauma. When she’s hired to find a set of missing diamonds, she falls prey to the gang of right-wing fanatics intent to use her and destroy her for sport. As a victim of a kidnapping, she does what she can to protect herself from these depraved and barbarous men, and to save her PI partner, Vincent Saldana, from certain death.
Divine Justice is a thrilling page-turner that travels from Cape Town to the banks of the Orange River in Namibia as Rae fights for her life and discovers that the missing diamonds are linked to the illicit dealings of the brutal gang without conscience.
Rae, in Joanne’s words is “feisty, sexy, resourceful, and ready for anything,” and we can’t wait to bring this book to North American readers. David Swinson, author of The Second Girl and Trigger praised the book writing, “Divine Justice is a no-nonsense, walloping thriller, with an intoxicating and smart protagonist in Rae Valentine. Be sure to find a comfortable spot before opening the book because once you’re taken on the ride it is hard to get off.”
Divine Justice is out January 12, 2021, and pre-orders are available now. Learn more about Joanne at her website, joannehichens.com
