Shadows in the Grass
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Beverley Harper is fast becoming one of Australia’s most popular storytellers. Echo of an Angry God is her most thrilling adventure yet and follows the enormous success of her previous novels, Storms Over Africa and Edge of the Rain.
‘a fast paced yet affecting thriller with . . . compelling authenticity’ WHO WEEKLY
‘a terrific adventure’ GOLD COAST BULLETIN
Beverley Harper
People of Heaven
The poacher didn’t shoot her. Bullets cost money and a shot might alert the rangers . . . On the third night, after enduring more agony than any man or beast should ever have to face, the rhinoceros took one last shuddering breath, heaved her flanks painfully, and sought refuge in the silky blackness of death.
In 1945 two returning soldiers meet on a train bound for Zululand. They have nothing in common; Joe King is a British–South African landowner, Wilson Mpande a Zulu tribesman. Yet destiny will link them for generations.
Michael King and Dyson Mpande, the sons of enemies, share a precious friendship that defies race and colour. But as the realities of apartheid transform an angry South Africa, the fate of the Zulu nation is as precarious as that of the endangered black rhinoceros, hunted for its horn. Each must fight for what he loves most.
And a great evil between their families will test their friendship beyond imaginable limits.
Passionate, suspenseful, evocative, Beverley Harper’s fourth novel is a worthy successor to her previous bestsellers, Echo of an Angry God, Edge of the Rain and Storms Over Africa.
‘Harper is Australia’s answer to Wilbur Smith’ AUSTRALIAN GOOD TASTE
Beverley Harper
The Forgotten Sea
Not a pretty sight. Certainly not one the authorities on Mauritius, that gem of a tourist destination in a trio of idyllic islands once known as the Mascarenes, would like to become public knowledge. Their carefully nurtured image was of sparkling blue sea, emerald green palm fringes haphazardly angled along pure white beaches . . . This was ugly, messy.
When Australian journalist Holly Jones flies to Mauritius to cover playboy adventurer Connor Maguire’s search for buried ancestral treasure, it promises to be a relaxing two weeks in an exotic island paradise. What she hasn’t planned on is an infuriating, reluctant subject with a hidden agenda. Or one who stirs the fires in a heart grown cold. But can she trust him . . .
After the body of a young woman is washed up on a beach, Holly finds herself caught in a deadly murder investigation and the island’s darkest secrets.
A compelling, passionate tale from Beverley Harper, author of the bestselling People of Heaven, Echo of an Angry God, Edge of the Rain and Storms Over Africa.
‘We have our own Wilbur Smith in the making here in Australia’ SUN-HERALD
Beverley Harper
Jackal’s Dance
Agony exploded in her knee. She staggered, tried to keep going, then nearly fell as a shocking pain rushed up her leg. Confusion and fear swamped her senses, escape suddenly essential. The tuskless cow turned and hobbled away, each step agonising torture. Her front right knee joint had been shattered by the single copper-jacketed bullet.
Man, her hated enemy, had just handed out a death sentence.
As the rangers and staff of a luxury lodge in Etosha National Park, Namibia welcome the last guests of the season, thoughts are predominantly on the three-month break ahead. Except for Sean, who is fighting his growing attraction for the manager’s wife, Thea.
Camping in the park nearby, Professor Eben Kruger has his work cut out keeping the attention of the university students in his charge on the behavioural habits of the cunning jackal.
None of them could ever be prepared for the horrendous events about to take place. Each will be pushed to breaking point as the quest for survival becomes the only thing that matters.
Shocking, gripping, breathtaking, this is Beverley Harper at her best.