Tannie Maria Collection + Free Tote Bag

The best selling series Tannie Maria is now available in a book pack!

Featuring the first 4 books in the series.

This award winning local series will take you deep into the Karoo landscape. Featuring delightful, colourful characters, mysteries and delicious food.

Get ready to solve the cases with Tannie Maria and Jessie.

Recipes for Love and Murder


The first and most popular of the Tannie Maria series: Tannie Maria, our fifty- something, short and soft main character, with her brown curls and untidy Afrikaans, is introduced to the readers. What will this amateur detective uncover in a small town marinated in secrets?The Satanic MechanicTannie Maria seeks out a counsellor, jokily known to all as “the satanic mechanic”. Then a murder flings her straight into Detective Henk Kannemeyer’s investigation. Not only is she dating the dashing Henk, she now has to work beside him: a potential recipe for disaster.Death on the LimpopoLadismith’s famous crime fighter is back – with a tin of buttermilk rusks in hand – to restore peace from the Klein Karoo to the great Limpopo River. The third instalment in the Tannie Maria Mystery crime series plunges Maria and her friends into pools of danger, amid water maidens, murders, and Harley Davidsons.The Milk Tart MurdersWhen Oom Frik of Oom Frik’s Fantastiques dies during a vintage movie screening in Ladismith, Tannie Maria and her policeman boyfriend Henk are on the scene. When a second body turns up, there’s a clue: a letter addressed to Tannie Maria asking for advice – and a milk tart recipe.

*Limited tote bags available.