A Beautiful Place to Die

When Captain Willem Pretorius, an Afrikaner police officer, is brutually murdered in the tiny backwater of Jacob's Rest, Detective Emmanuel Cooper is sent to investigate.

The local Afrikaners and the dead man's prominent family view Cooper, an 'English', South African, with...Read more

A Beautiful Place to Die, Malla Nunn

One thing that will strike readers of A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO DIE firmly between the eyes is how an apartheid society is so incredibly foreign from the ways in which others of us live.  That's not to say that there is an overtly "political" agenda in this book, rather the book does not take a...Read more

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