Karin Brynard’s crime novels have been published in Afrikaans, English, German, French and Dutch to great acclaim, having won the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, two M-Net awards, and an ATKV prize for prose. Her most recent novel in Afrikaans, Tuisland, shot to the top of the bestseller list in the country when it was published in June 2016. Having worked as a journalist and political correspondent for Rapport for many years, she now writes full time. She lives in Stellenbosch.

Karin Brynard het reeds verskeie toekennings verower, waaronder die Universiteit van Johannesburg Debuutprys vir Kreatiewe Skryfwerk, die ATKV-prosaprys en twee M-Net-pryse. Haar boeke word ook in Engels, Duits, Frans en Nederlands uitgegee. Sy woon op Stellenbosch.