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Voinjama Johnson, 28, is an ambitious investigative journalist at the Cape Town magazine Urban. Her life is messy, and to top it all, Vee�s been seeing things: a teenage girl in a red hat, more specifically, an unsettling hallucination that goes hand-in-hand with debilitating episodes which Vee is loath to call �panic attacks�. When Vee spots a photograph of the girl from her visions at a local hospital, she quickly launches an investigation, under the pretext of an article about missing children in Cape Town. She�s soon delving into the secretsof the fractured Fourie and Paulsen families, with the help of her assistant Chl�e Bishop. Why can�t anyone answer their questions? What happened to Jacqui Paulsen, who left home two years ago and hasn�t been seen since? The Lazarus Effect is a gripping new addition to the Cape Town crime genre from a very talented debut author. Deon Meyer calls it a "wonderful debut" that is "brimming with intelligence, wit, and real heart. Enormously entertaining".