The Score

Name: The Score
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: H.J. Golakai
ISBN: 9781980079101

Author: H.J. Golakai

Series: Vee Johnson Mysteries #2

Narrator: Motshidi Moshegwa

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/04/2020

Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Cultural Fiction

Synopsis

In this fabulous follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The Lazarus Effect, newspaper reporter Vee Johnson reprieves her role as Cape Town's most feisty female investigator. Vee and her ever-faithful sidekick, Chloe Bishop, have been banished from City Chronicle's newsroom to review a tourist lodge in sleepy Oudtshoorn. But Vee and Chloe are barely checked in to their rooms when the first body is discovered. hanging from a tree, with Vee's purple silk scarf used as a noose. But is it suicide or strangulation? As Vee investigates the death, she is pulled into a bewildering world of conferences and corruption, dog-walking and drug addiction, break-ins and black economic empowerment. And all this whilst juggling the two men in her love life. The Score is a unique combination of sex, intrigue and subterfuge, set against the fading colours of the Rainbow Nation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Madhulika on August 09, 2020

Voinjama ‘Vee’ Johnson is an investigative journalist in Cape Town, and is sent—not on an investigative assignment at all—with her colleague and friend Chloë Bishop to write a travel piece about a lodge out in the (somewhat) wild. Very soon, Vee and Chloë come up against a death: an alcoholic manage......more

Goodreads review by Fiona on December 01, 2019

Journalist Vee Johnson has a new gig writing for City Chronicle magazine. She prefers hard-hitting investigative journalism like the missing children case that made her name in her first adventure THE LAZARUS EFFECT. But her boss has other ideas. Still, Vee isn't crying too hard about being sent with......more

Goodreads review by Jaylani on April 05, 2020

This is awesome! A crime fiction written by an African writer, taking place in an African nation. Love it.......more

Goodreads review by D.J. on May 28, 2016

Most people go to lodges in the Little Karoo to get away from it all. Vee Johnson didn’t want to go in the first place, and she definitely didn't go to explain how a man came to be hanged with her scarf. Her response is to show that you can put a crime reporter on a travel assignment but you can't s......more