The Praying Mantis


Everyday bodies of men are popping up all over Cape Town, and as Detective Reeve and Detective Porter investigate the case, their trail is getting colder and colder. All the victims are killed with the same cold and merciless precision. All foreign businessmen. All unidentified.


As if The Praying Mantis case isn’t enough to handle, Detective Reeve and Detective Porter are hunting the Singles Killer, a man who murders young lonely women in their homes and leaves strange markings on their bodies with a single children’s rhyme.


Detective Reeve and Detective Porter race against time to expose The Praying Mantis and bring her to justice, but their best hope of doing so falls into their lap from a contact at X-plicit, a brothel in Cape Town. Her name is Nikki Knight. She is beautiful and she is damaged. She reveals the names of The Praying Mantis and Detective Reeve realizes that there is more than one woman, but what he doesn’t know is that he is sexually involved with one of them.


And because of this The Praying Mantis has always been a step ahead of the Detectives and decides to eliminate the competition by kidnapping Nikki Knight and killing Detective Reeve. But all rules are broken when one of The Praying Mantis women is sent to kill Detective Porter and is abducted in the process by the mysterious Singles Killer.