A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery

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A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper MysteryAward winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Coopera man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed. In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new

~ Sue Grafton

When she meets construction worker Chris Johnson

For it is couched in such terms as to offer him the instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival

The dead pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition

But the band won’t let go of their dream

Dear friends

and this is where you plant the mental seeds for creating new experiences

a naive girl from the Kenyan city of Nairobi

Detective Jason de Sanges excites all kinds of fantasies in Poppy Calloway

yammering on about turnips or some nonsense

Hugely funny and immensely readable

and soon the mystery and temptation begin all over again