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In The Fourth Boy, journalist Grant Asher’s first assignment draws him into a chilling string of murders in the Karoo. Each victim—once a child at a wartime orphanage—bears the same disturbing mark: a severed fingertip. As he unravels the mystery, the dark shadows of the past surface in this haunting and elegantly written debut novel.
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The fondly nurtured idyll of the Karoo as a place of tranquillity is shattered when recently graduated journalist Grant Asher’s first real investigative assignment in the mid-1980s draws him into a series of unexplained murders in three quiet Karoo towns. There are two mystifying links: the victims were once part of a group of five hundred Polish-Jewish children housed at an orphanage in Oudtshoorn during the Second World War, and each victim was missing the tip of their little finger, removed post mortem. Exquisitely written, Wilson’s debut novel will stay with you long after the last page is turned.