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Rum Justice

Author(s): Jolien Harmsen

Location(s): St Lucia

Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

Era(s): Modern

When ‘Smiley’ Riley Jackson, the handsome water-taxi driver, turns up at sea with his face chewed away by fish and a bullet wound in his chest, the finger of suspicion quickly points to the Cunninghams, wealthy Americans visiting the Eastern Caribbean island of St Cecilia.

Not only has Hazel Cunningham, a regular djanmet, been spending a lot of time with the deceased behind her husband’s back, she has also caught the attention of the close-knit community in LaPointe Sable by threatening to shoot herself a black man, presumably with her husband’s unlicensed pistol. Awa! A quest to bring the Americans to trial unfolds in paradise. But where, on an economically struggling island run by self-regarding politicians and laid-back officials and with a history of slavery and colonialism are truth and justice to be found?

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