A beautiful place to die
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Malla Nunn.
Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781416586203
Subjects: Police -- South Africa -- Fiction; Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction; South Africa -- Fiction; South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique, 1952. An Afrikaner police officer is found dead. Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of one Captain Pretorius.