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In the South African town of Trekkersburg, Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Zulu partner, Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi, investigate the death of a young white piano teacher, which turns out to be murder. The case leads them through the absurdities and cruelties of apartheid. The first Kramer and Zondi novel.

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CWA Gold Dagger (Winners)
The Gold Dagger is awarded each year by the Crime Writers’ Association for the best crime novel of the year, and is the most prestigious prize in British crime writing. First given in 1955, as the Crossed Red Herring Award, it has gone to spy novels and police procedurals, psychological thrillers and historical mysteries alike - from John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold to Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Ann Cleeves and Mick Herron. This list collects the winning novels by year.

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