AWARDS
- Recipes for Love and Murder. Winner of the Nielsen Booksellers Choice best book of the year, 2016. Then selected as one their four best books over the last 10 years, 2026. Received a Washington Post Blue Flag and a starred Kirkus review. Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award.
- Death on the Limpopo. Shortlisted for Niesen Booksellers best fiction book of the year.
- The Milk Tart Murders.Winner of the Nielsen Booksellers Choice best fiction book of the year, 2022.
- Recipes to Live For (A Tannie Maria cookbook). Winner of the international Gourmand Best in the World award for the category of Acknowledgments, 2025. Second place in the category of Regional. Winner of the Gourmand Best of the Best award in its category, over the last 30 years. The fictional character of Tannie Maria competed with chefs and cooks from 222 countries.
- The Recipes for Love and Murder TV series has been nominated and shortlisted for various international awards. And in 2026 received awards from the Directors Guild of South Africa for best actress (Maria Doyle Kennedy) best actor (Tony Kgoroge) and best directors (Karen Jeynes and Jozua Malherbe).