{"product_id":"the-monsters-daughter-by-michelle-pretorius","title":"The Monster's Daughter by Michelle Pretorius","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN; 9781612195384\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMelville House, July 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e464 pages, Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSomewhere on the South African veld, 1901: At the height of the Boer War, a doctor at a British concentration camp conducts a series of grim experiments on Boer prisoners. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa …\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne hundred years later, a disgraced young police constable is reassigned to the sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a woman, burned beyond recognition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe crime soon leads her into her country's violent past—a past that includes her father, a high-ranking police official under the apartheid regime, and the children left behind in that long ago concentration camp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichelle Pretorius’s epic debut weaves present and past together into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller that calls to mind Lauren Beukes’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Shining Girls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Tana French’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Secret Place\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. With an explosive conclusion, it marks the emergence of a thrilling new writer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47278969028770,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/81K6Ld4E-7L._SY342.jpg?v=1779349371","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/the-monsters-daughter-by-michelle-pretorius","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}