James McClure Books In Order

Kramer and Zondi Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. The Steam Pig (1971)
  2. The Caterpillar Cop (1972)
  3. The Gooseberry Fool (1974)
  4. Snake (1975)
  5. The Sunday Hangman (1977)
  6. The Blood of an Englishman (1980)
  7. The Artful Egg (1984)
  8. Imago (1989)
  9. The Song Dog (1991)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Four and Twenty Virgins (1973)
  2. Rogue Eagle (1976)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. God It Was Fun (2014)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Killers (1976)
  2. Spike Island (1980)
  3. Cop World (1984)

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James McClure Books Overview

The Steam Pig

James McClure’s first novel arrives like a slam in the kidneys…
a gripping style, real characters, and an exotic locale…
. The Steam Pig will not only keep the reader’s nose to the page, it will also make him think. The New York Times Book Review In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why? James McClure was born in Johannesburg. Je published eight wildly successful books in the Kramer and Zondi series. He died on June 17, 2006.

The Caterpillar Cop

Praise for James McClure: More than a good mystery story…
a revealing picture of the hate and sickness of the apartheid society of South Africa. The Washington Post The Caterpillar Cop is just as stark, just as earthy, just as lusty…
. Powerful…
. The pace is fast, the solution ingenious. The New York Times Book Review The Caterpillar Cop
unusually enough is just as good, if not better, than its predecessor. St. Louis Post DispatchHandsome twelve year old Boetie was strangled and stabbed. Was he the victim of a pedophile? On whom was he spying?

The Gooseberry Fool

Hugo Swart, faithful churchgoer and respected citizen, is found stabbed to death on the floor of his kitchen just before Christmas, on the hottest night of the year. If Mr. Swart’s Reverend is to be believed, no one in the world could have a reason to kill him; the murder was most likely a robbery gone ugly, and the chief suspect is Swart’s black servant, Shabalala, who has fled to the countryside. But Lieutenant Kramer suspects that not everything is as it seems. While Zondi pursues Shabalala in what turns out to be a treacherous tour of miserable outlying Bantu villages, Kramer tries to wring the truth out of some of Swart’s acquaintances in Trekkersburg and Cape Town it seems not everyone liked the victim quite as much as the Reverend did. But danger lies at every turn what will this investigation cost the duo?McClure’s merciless depiction of 1970s South Africa, its many layers of racism, and the gaps between rich and poor make this perhaps the most devourable book in the Kramer and Zondi series yet.

The Song Dog

In 1962 South Africa, an Afrikaner detective and a Bantu investigator team up, putting race behind them, to investigate a series of murders. NYT.

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