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2000s: Skeletons which have lain undisturbed for centuries beneath Gallows Hill
Gallows Hill (Clare Hart 4)
What you need to know before your trail
A dog scavenging in an illegal building site digs up a bone. A human bone.
And that’s just the first of many as there are more than a few skeletons hidden here. Skeletons which have lain undisturbed for centuries beneath Gallows Hill, where Cape Town’s notorious gibbets once stood.
Investigative profiler Dr Clare Hart is called in by Captain Riedwaan Faizal of the SAPS Gang Unit to investigate and and soon discovers that a deadly, more recent secret lies hidden among these long-buried bones.
Gallows Hill is deadly by name and deadly by nature…
Travel Guide
Gallows Hill
A place where death and hanging were common occurrence. The name comes from its gruesome history as being the place where people met their death and were buried in mass graves. An execution ground.
Skeletons from the past are one thing but those from the present day are even more worrying. In a crate is a woman’s body wearing a green silk dress, stuffed inside. And no one seems to know who she is.
Cape Town police have their work cut out. The bodies may be dead but the secrets they still hold are far from it. This is a dark and foreboding tale with the corruption and horror of the past quite literally being dug up and examined in the present day. Grim reading.
Adderley Street
The street where there’s a statue of Jan Van Riebeeck. This is the only date in history that Clare remembers – the day this Dutchman was sent to start a vegetable patch on the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. There is also a slave museum in this street which is apt given the subject matter. The Slave Lodge Museun is one of the oldest buildings in Cape Town
Streetview Maps
A) Cape Town - Gallows Hill Road
D) Cape Town - Slave Lodge Museum
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Gallows Hill (Clare Hart #4)
Author/ Guide: Margie Orford Destination: Cape Town Departure Time : 2000s
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