Dead in the Water

Detective Storm van der Merwe is walking her dog on the beach when shemakes a gruesome discovery: the body of a young journalist - missing alimb. For the residents of Grootbaai, corpses are bad for business: thousandsof tourists from all over the world flock to this coastal town to shark-cagedive with its famous great whites. Storm is desperate to investigate the matter, but she's been banishedfrom the field to a dreary back office. She's also carless after a tow-truckdriver - an attractive one at that - crashed his truck into her Beetle. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, Storm's former colleague Andreas Moerdykis having problems of his own while investigating the death of a famousSpringbok rugby player whose car was also hit by a tow truck. Is Storm's car accident in some way related to the sports star's fatalcollision? And is there a link between the journalist's death and stories ofabalone poaching in Grootbaai?As Storm searches for answers, she realises that everyone's a suspect andthe stakes are deadly.