- ISBN: 9781415201435 | 1415201439
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/15/2012
South Africa'¬"s super detective shares his life and his most famous cases. Recently retired, detective Piet Byleveld's name has become legendary. He is the man who solved some of South Africa's most famous crime investigations, including the Leigh Matthews kidnapping. He has a 100% success rate with serial murders. In this book, Rapportjournalist Hanlie Retief, who had exclusive access to Byleveld'¬"s dossiers, writes about twenty of the most notorious serial-killer cases and many other murders Byleveld solved. She weaves into it the story of Byleveld'¬"s own life. Read what happened behind the scenes on cases like Jeppe'¬"s Hammer Murderer, the bodies in the Bruma Lake, the crossbow murder of Sibille Zanner and the disappearance of Sheldean Human. The book includes full-color photographs from police records throughout. It is astounding detective work told in a punchy, hard-hitting style.