Detective Emmanuel Cooper (7 books in series)
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review 1: Third in the series from Malla Nunn, and at least as good as the first book, maybe better. The plot evolves naturally from the characters and the culture they inhabit. Because of the secrets and mysteries inherent in apartheid South Africa, the twists of plot and revelations ar...
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review 1: I love reading crime novels written by foreign authors. They give you such an inside look at the societies in which they are set. This one doesn't disappoint. The story takes place in South Africa in 1952, a time and a place stained by apartheid. Like so many other times and ...
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review 1: Malla Nunn is my new literary crush. While not perfect, this second Emmanuel Cooper novel delivers. Nunn is great on place: now I have to go to Durban. And she so well describes the darkness and chaos that must be part of any city's underground, and Cooper is the perfect noir her...
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review 1: I bought this novel immediately after finishing "A beautiful place to die", because I'd loved the characters and setting so much. I couldn't wait to find out what had happened to Emmanuel Cooper and wondered whether Shabalala would reappear in this new city far from Jacob's Rest ...
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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 ...
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review 1: This is the second Malla Nunn Detective Emmanuel Cooper I have read and the first in the series. The story takes place in South Africa in 1952. This is a fast paced action mystery occurring in the context of the injustices and craziness of appartheid. Violence and sex are key ele...
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review 1: This book is a continuation of the story of Emmanuel Cooper, who has lost his job as a police detective because of opposing the actions of the South African Security Services. However, he is still working undercover for his old boss at the homicide unit. He inadvertently becomes ...