Karin Brynard

is a journalist who earned her spurs in the burning Soweto streets during the Struggle years. She witnessed the liberation of Nelson Mandela and the birth of a new South Africa as political correspondent of a national daily newspaper. Brynard wrote three literary thriller novels – Plaasmoord, Onse vaders and Tuisland – that are both exciting and humoristic. Plaasmoord was published in Dutch as Moord op Huilwater and in English as Weeping Waters.