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Quaint village café turns deadly in darkly humorous novel

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June 13, 2025

WHAT do you get when you mix a quaint village, a bookshop-café, two unlikely friends and a dead body?

- Bonnie Espie

A riotously dark, funny and oh-so-satisfying debut novel, that’s what.

When Winifred Staples escapes Johannesburg for a quieter life in the fictitious Riviersvalleij, she’s hoping for peace, pastries and page-turners, but life has other ideas.

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