In Gasheer van Drakeneiland a millionaire invites five strangers to his island. What starts out as an adventure soon turns into a nightmare for Irma Bruwer: Can she trust Anton de Woud? Or is he in cahoots with their host? 
In Die droster van Doringbaai Koos van der Merwe and an artist, Zuna Steyl, show up in town. Tension develops at Sebastiaan Stadler’s fish factory and Petra Pelser, his nurse, follows him one night when he disappears . . .
In Net ná middernag a lawyer is murdered at Driedoring. Along with the detective, we get to know the villagers, including Marie Grebe, who had been the lawyer’s teenage sweetheart, and who is mad about detective stories.