It took Sarah Lotz just 30 pages to convince Hodder & Stoughton to make her an offer she didn’t refuse: a world-rights deal for her novel The Three.

South African-based author Sarah Lotz was scraping by before a British publishing house offered her a six-figure deal.

South African Authors Jassy Mackenzie, Wessel Ebersohn and Sarah Lotz, have plenty of inspiration when it comes to crime.