[1] Born in Johannesburg,[2] Makholwa graduated in journalism from Rhodes University.
[3] She came to the literary scene in 2007 with Red Ink, the first crime fiction by a black author in South Africa.
In Red Ink the fictional detective, Lucy — a successful public relations writer — is drawn into investigating a horrifying series of rapes and murders: It has suspense, violence, murder.
Her third novel was Black Widow Society (2013) and her fourth novel The Blessed Girl was released in October 2017.
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