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        | Wessel Ebersohn |  
        | • | Abigail Bukula: a
          young black lawyer, and Yudel Gordon, an experienced Jewish prison
          psychologist, in Johannesburg, South Africa |  
 
        
          | Richard Kunzmann |  
          | • | Jacob Tshabalala: detective inspector,  in Johannesburg, South Africa |  
 
        
          | Jassy Mackenzie |  
          | • | Jade de Jong: private
            investigator returning home 10 years after her police commissioner
            father was killed, and police superintendent David Patel, in Johannesburg,
            South Africa |  
 
        
          | James McClure |  
          | • | Tromp Kramer: Afrikaner
            police detective, and Mickey Zondi, a Bantu police sergeant, in Trekkersburg,
            South Africa |  
 
        
          | Rafe McGregor |  
          | • | Jack Forrester:
            in charge of the Special Investigations Unit of the South African
            Police Service, in Durban, South Africa, in The Secret Trilogy |  
 
        
          | Deon Meyer |  
          | • | Benny Griessel: aging,
            alcoholic police inspector in Capetown, South Africa |  
 
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