About “Donkerdrif”
The Dark Flood is a detective novel by Deon Meyer, the seventh in the Benny Griessel series. Originally published in Afrikaans in 2020 by Human and Rousseau, it was translated into English by K.L. Seegers and released in the U.S. and UK in 2022. The story follows detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido, who have been demoted from the elite Hawks unit of the South African Police Service. It also centers on Sandra Steenberg, a real-estate agent in Stellenbosch. The novel is set in South Africa and focuses on the characters as they navigate crime and personal challenges. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)