THE GHOST VOTE
Dark Justice: A South African Crime Series — Book 9 of 24

Just weeks before a high-stakes municipal election in Nelson Mandela Bay, a voting official is found murdered in her car — throat slit, voter rolls missing, and a ballot box stuffed with pre-marked slips in the back seat. To the public, it's a random act of violence. But detectives Thandi Mokoena and Adam Barnard know better.

When the investigation reveals dozens of registered voters who've been dead for years — yet somehow voted early — it becomes clear: someone's rigging the system using names that no longer have voices. And The Circle? It's not just watching democracy fall apart — it's engineering it.

As political players scramble to clean house, Thandi and Adam are dragged into a game of manipulated narratives, digital sabotage, and township intimidation tactics. But when one of their own sources is found hanging from a campaign poster scaffold, the message is unmistakable: stop digging.

The Ghost Vote is a razor-sharp political thriller about stolen voices, systemic rot, and the terrifying ease with which truth can be rewritten at the ballot box.

In this election, the dead vote first. And the living are just collateral.