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A finely crafted novel with an unstoppable plot. --Top Billing In the sleepy Cape Winelands of South Africa the body of a young woman is found drifting in a river, and Detective Eberard Februarie is called in to investigate the case. It doesnt help matters that the young woman--Melanie Du Preez--was the daughter of a prominent local citizen. Professor du Preez is a lecturer in the Universitys Faculty of Law, and a conservative activist in the defense of the Afrikaans culture. Has a murder happened here, and if so, is the motive politics or something much more personal? Eberard discovers a scrapbook of lullabies that Melanie had collected over the years, its a clue that could unlock the case for him, if only he could figure out what hes looking for? A man struggling with his own demons, Eberard discovers even more secrets that lead him to the rotten core of this old university town.