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Pale Horses (2013)

by Jassy Mackenzie(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1616952210 (ISBN13: 9781616952211)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Soho Crime

series

Jade de Jong

review 1: Better than the previous installment, but not as good or dark as the first two books. This book also spends more time in social issues such as genetically modified seeds and apartheid than the previous stories. The author does a good job of weaving a well knitted story and Jade de Jong stays true to form, even though part of the ending is somewhat contrived. I look forward to the next book in the series.
review 2: Pale Horses is a Jade De Jong mystery set in South Africa. At first, the case for Jade appears simple-find out what happened to a base jumper who falls from a sixty-five story skyscraper to her death when her parachute malfunctioned. The man she was with insists it was not an accident and hires Jade to prove it. Jade discovers the dead woman work... moreed for a charity that helped impoverished communities become self-supporting. When Jade travels to one of the communities in Limpopo, she finds it razed to the ground. When she tries to uncover where they went, she learns about a fatal disease that swept through the entire community. A company doing research on maize had engineered a product that caused fatal cancers to appear in the intestines of anything ingesting the corn. She also discovers a journalist probing the disappearance of the entire community has gone missing. A subplot follows a woman named Ntombi Khumalo, the only person in the community who didn't die and her job to keep her son alive, driving a car for a professional killer. The plot was fast-paced, the characters believable, the suspense thrilling. It was a great read. less

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