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Blessed Are The Dead (2012)

by Malla Nunn(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1451616929 (ISBN13: 9781451616927)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Atria/Emily Bestler Books

series

Detective Emmanuel Cooper

review 1: Another great installment in Malla Nunn's series about a lonely detective, Emmanuel Cooper and his sidekick Zulu detective Samuel Shabalala. Reinstated to the force, Cooper and Shabalala investigate a black on black crime in the scenic mountains beyond Durban. After solving the mystery of a murdered Zulu girl and boy, Cooper solves a mystery in his own life and sets out at the end to act on it. I hope this is expanded in the next book in the series, which I won't wait long to read.
review 2: As usual, I am interested in books about countries I have visited, in this case South Africa, portrayed during the Apartheid era. A white detective (tho hints that he is really mixed race - which mattered a great deal during those times) and a black detective are working ... morea case of a lovely black girl, daughter of a Zulu chief, who has been murdered. We get everything thrown into the mix, including a Jewish doctor - a survivor of the Holocaust at that, an unhappy British doctor, an Afrikaneer lesbian, a crazy English kid. A little too much for me! Still, I couldn't guess who "done it" (not that I ever can) and it was a good read, and lots of background into S Africa at that time. less

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