Awards

Thirteen Hours

• Barry Award for Best Thriller, 2011, USA.
• Boeke Prize Fanatics Choice Award, 2011 , Exclusive Books, South Africa.
• Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger award in the UK, 2010.
• ATKV Prize for Best Suspense Fiction, 2009, South Africa.
• M-Net Award in the Film Category in 2009, South Africa.
• Shortlisted for the 2011 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, USA.

Blood Safari

• Weisser Schatten receives the German Krimi Award in 2009.
• Inaugural ATKV Prize for Best Suspense Fiction in 2008, South Africa.

Devil's Peak

• Martin Beck Award (“Den gyllene kofoten” or The golden crowbar) by the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers in 2010.
• Le pic du diable, wins the Readers’ Award from CritiquesLibres.com for Best Crime Novel or Thriller in 2010, France.
• ATKV Prose Prize for 2004, South Africa.

Heart of the Hunter

• ATKV Prose Prize for 2003, South Africa.
• Das Herz des Jagers wins a Deutsche Krimi Preis in 2006, Germany.

Dead at Daybreak

• Död i Gryningen shortlisted for The Martin Beck Award for best translated crime fiction in 2008, Sweden.
• Best television script for the South African series by the ATKV in 2007.
• ATKV Prose Prize for 2000, South Africa.
• Les Soldats de l'aube wins the French Le prix Mystère de la critique, 2004.
• Shortlisted for the M-Net Book Prize, Sputh Africa.
• Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Prize, South Africa.

Dead before Dying

• Jusqu'au Dernier wins Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, 2003, France.

Other:

• Deon wins in the language, written and oral literature category of the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) annual multilingualism awards for 2010.