A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery by Nunn, Malla
A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery by Nunn, Malla

A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery

Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South...
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Author: Malla Nunn
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A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery by Nunn, Malla

A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery

$42.37
A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery by Nunn, Malla

A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery

$42.37
Author: Malla Nunn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, dividing a nation into black and white while supposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English. Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cuts deeper, but it's not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead that emotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to the surface.

When Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder, his mission is preempted by the powerful police Security Branch, who are dedicated to their campaign to flush out black communist radicals. But Detective Cooper isn't interested in political expediency and has never been one for making friends. He may be modest, but he radiates intelligence and certainly won't be getting on his knees before those in power. Instead, he strikes out on his own, following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of Captain Pretorius, a man whose relationships with the black and coloured residents of the town he ruled were more complicated and more human than anyone could have imagined.

The first in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series, A Beautiful Place to Die marks the debut of a talented writer who reads like a brilliant combination of Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder, passion, corruption, and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation. I

Author: Malla Nunn
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 10/20/2009
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.24w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9781416586210


Award: Macavity Award - Nominee

About the Author
Malla Nunn was born in Swaziland, South Africa, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. She is a filmmaker with three award-winning films to her credit, as well as the author of the Emmanuel Cooper crime series, When the Ground Is Hard, and Sugar Town Queens.
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