Man Down, Irma Venter
Man Down, Irma Venter
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Man Down

Author: Irma Venter, Karin Schimke

Series: Rogue #2

Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman, Steve West, Ingeborg Riedmaier

Unabridged: 11 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2021


Synopsis

In Irma Venter’s follow-up to the electric Hard Rain, Ranna Abramson returns home to the lion’s den to resurrect a long-dead past and save the man she loves.Ranna Abramson wants to disappear.But she knows she can’t keep running when a former enemy tracks her down in Mumbai with dire news: her onetime lover, journalist Alex Derksen, has disappeared back home in South Africa.Torn between her desire for him and fear of a homecoming, Ranna knows she’s the only one who can find him. But only two things in South Africa would welcome her—the inside of a cell or the bottom of a grave. There, to the police she’s the prime suspect in three murders. To the press, she’s the Black Widow serial killer.Despite her instinct to stay away, Ranna makes the journey. But the key to finding Alex lies in her painful past. And to uncover it, she’ll need to unravel a web of secrets tied to a long-forgotten crime.Even if she finds Alex before it’s too late, Ranna must answer for past sins…or risk losing him forever.

About Irma Venter

Irma Venter is a journalist and thriller writer. She loves traveling, Labradors, good coffee, excellent whiskey, and expensive chocolate—not necessarily in that order. She writes books about strong women, interesting men, and that fascinating space between right and wrong. She lives in South Africa.Karin Schimke won both the South African Literary Translators Award and the Sol Plaatje Translation Award for Flame in the Snow, a collection of love letters from Ingrid Jonker to André Brink. She has translated various texts from Afrikaans and German to English. Man Down is her third translation of Irma Venter’s crime thrillers. Schimke works as a journalist and an editor. She is also a poet. Her first book of poetry, Bare & Breaking, won the Ingrid Jonker Prize for a debut collection.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Glen on May 19, 2021

I won this book in a goodreads drawing. When a journalist disappears doing a story on illegal mining in South Africa, his former girlfriend tracks down his other lost love, thought to be a serial killer by the police. Although the two don't really like one another, they track the journalist down. Sout......more

Goodreads review by Jéanette on August 13, 2013

Wat 'n heerlike tweede boek! Ranna, Sarah en Alex se stemme wat slim die raaisels ontrafel. 'n Spanningslyn wat maak dat mens die boek letterlik nie kán neersit nie. Heerlike karakters! Hoogtyd vir sulke stories in Afrikaans. 'n Moet vir almal wat Skoenlapper gelees het. Fantastiese werk Irma Venter......more

Goodreads review by Elize on September 15, 2013

Hope Irma never stops writing, she just has it all!! I did not even want to read too fast as I would finish the book too soon. Laat die boeke kom, Irma......more

Goodreads review by Alet on December 29, 2020

Ek stel voor dat die s-reeks boeke in volgorde gelees word, want sy skryf vir my al hoe beter soos die reeks aangaan. Ek het ongelukkig nie by Skoenlapper begin nie, maar lees nou dit in volgorde verder. Goeie karakterisering en die spanningslyn word goed gebou. Sterk aanbeveel!......more

Goodreads review by Ilse on June 18, 2017

Ek het Skrapnel net soveel geniet soos Skoenlapper. Sou aanbeveel dat lesers Skoenlapper eerste lees (alhoewel nie noodsaaklik). As jy hou van Deon Meyer, sal jy hiervan ook hou (y)......more