The Chronicles Of Shalom Court

Set in 2019, Volume 1 opens with the discovery of the mutilated body of a middle-aged white woman in the basement of Shalom Court, an abandoned block of flats [a mnyamandawo – place of darkness] in Yeoville, Johannesburg. What follows is both the struggle to identify the victim and the hunt for the killer.

En route, various characters – neighbours, cops, property owners, municipal officials, as well as past and present residents of the building – co-operate or clash in terms of their own agendas and concerns.