BOHEEM
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Boheem by Chanette Paul

Author: Chanette Paul
Language: Afrikaans
Pages: 586
ISBN: 978 - 0 - 7993 - 4464 - 6
Category: Romantic suspense novel
Publishing date: July 2009
Publisher: Lapa Publishers

Boheem is Chanette Paul’s 32nd book in a career that spans 15 years and her third in the romantic suspense genre. With her first book in this genre, Springgety (October 2007), she set off to fill a huge gap in Afrikaans literature where romantic suspense novels are rare. With Fortuin (October 2008) she explored the genre in even greater depth and now with Boheem she is settled firmly as suspense writer.

Kayla Cilliers might have been acquitted of her husband’s murder, but that didn’t mean she was found innocent. Three years after the murder Kayla is elated when she wins a writing contest. The prize is tutelage under world famous author, Rose-Anne Lockwood, owner of the artist colony, Bohemia.

On her arrival, Kayla discovers the body of her would-be mentor. She is immediately a suspect, but it is when her partial fingerprint is found on the murder weapon, that the secrets of her past start casting ever growing shadows over her future. As she becomes acquainted with the artists of Bohemia, Kayla realizes the colony is a pressure cooker of creative passions and obsessive emotions. There is Judy who hears messages from the Other Side; Seth, the sculptor who sees biblical figures in stone and his wife Gesie who sees visions of the near future. Alwyn paints mermaids, but lately lacks a muse and Lente, his previous muse, plays harp like an angel whilst jealousy is her demon. Justin Lockwood runs the pub and although he resents his older brother Mitch, he takes snobbish Bonnie, Mitch’s ex-girlfriend, as his lover.

The sexy Mitch Lockwood, who turns metal into artworks, turns Kayla’s heart to pulp but Mitch believes she was the one who had killed his sister, Rose-Anne. To prove her innocence, Kayla must find out which one of Bohemia’s dysfunctional residents chose to demonstrate that the sword, in this instance, was mightier than the pen.

While the mysteries and malice of the Bohemians unfold and the police tighten their case against Kayla, Detective Gus Niemand sets out to prove Kayla had killed her husband on the day they got divorced – the same day one of his pupils declared he had fathered her unborn baby.

This might prove to be academic when Rose-Anne’s killer closes in on Kayla

With Boheem Chanette Paul has established her unique voice in the suspense genre. As with the previous two books, the reader is treated to loads of riddles and mystical twists – delivered with subtle humor – and becomes emotionally and spiritually involved with the characters and the story.

Boheem, preceded by Springgety and Fortuin, is the third novel in a planned pentad of which the fourth, Meetsnoer, is scheduled to be published in October 2010. She is in the planning stages of the fifth an final Gys Niemand-book

The five novels will eventually form an integrated whole in which the legend of the mermaid of Kruisbaai, a recurring theme in the series, as well as Detective Gys Niemand’s relationship with the love of his life, will be concluded.