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A beautiful Place to Die

A beautiful Place to Die

Author(s): Malla Nunn

Location(s): South Africa

Genre(s): Mystery

Era(s): 1950s

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Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper — a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed. Set in “Jacob’s Rest” a fictional place on the Mozambique/South Africa border.

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A great novel set in Apartheid S Africa. Well observed and very readable.

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