Water Music (32 page)
A woman lies dead in an abandoned shed, but skeletons have lain undisturbed for centuries here at Gallows Hill, where Cape Towns gibbets once stood.
Police profiler Dr Clare Hart soon discovers that a deadly, more recent secret lies hidden among those long-buried bones. Who was the woman in the green silk dress? Who wanted her dead? Who buried her body among these ancient graves?
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A terrified, frozen child is found close to death on an icy Cape Town mountainside. But no-one reported her missing. Where does she come from? Who does she belong to? Profiler Dr Clare Hart is baffled but when a young woman disappears, Clare sees a frightening pattern beginning to emerge.
Rosa is a gifted but troubled young cellist, and her grandfather is at his wits end. Why
did she walk out of her music school that day? Where has she gone now?
As winter tightens its grip, Clare must find Rosa and unravel her secrets… all the while carrying a secret of her own.
MARGIE ORFORD is a Fulbright Scholar and an award-winning journalist. She is Executive Vice President of South African PEN, and a patron of Rape Crisis.
She has written five Clare Hart novels, and learned many things during her research. A pathologist taught her how to reassemble human remains, a senior ballistics officer taught her how to shoot an AK-47, and the hard-pressed cops working Cape
Towns gangland gave her an insight into how young, deprived boys are turned into violent men.
Margie Orford has three daughters and lives in Cape Town, where she is a full-time writer of fiction and non-fiction.
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First published in South Africa in 2013 by Jonathan Ball Publishers (Pty) Ltd
First published in the UK in 2014 by Head of Zeus Ltd.
Copyright © Margie Orford, 2013.
The moral right of Margie Orford to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
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This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events
portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously.
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN (TPBO) 9781781857847
ISBN (E) 9781781857830
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