The Overnight Guest

THE OVERNIGHT GUEST

Clifton Fourth. 01:10 AM. A Level 8 gale cuts Victoria Road off from the world.

Lyle van der Schyff, a former SIU forensic auditor who traded corruption dockets for a quiet three-room guesthouse perched on the cliffs, wants only one thing: a life with no surprises.

Then the power dies. And someone knocks.

The man on his doorstep is bleeding, half-drowned, clutching a taped-shut Pelican case. Tariq Cassiem from Water and Sanitation claims he was sent by an old detective with a warning: if Maitland goes dark, Lyle is the only former investigator not on the payroll.

Now Lyle's isolated guesthouse is the only place that still has light - and the storm has trapped them both inside with a secret worth killing for.

A tense, atmospheric crime thriller set on Cape Town's Atlantic Seaboard. For fans of Deon Meyer, Lee Child and Stephen King.

The night is long. The guest is not who he says he is.