When Aarti reviewed A Beautiful Place to Die recently, I was excited to read a murder mystery by a non-American-or-British author and set in a non-American-or-British place, and as I’ve said, a murder mystery featuring a male corpse. I can read about alive ladies doing things that alive people do. I don’t read that many murder mysteries, partly because it always seems to be women getting killed, and I get tired of reading about beautiful lady corpses. This probably happens more often than it seems to me to happen. It’s a murder mystery where the victim is male. The beginning: British police detective Emmanuel Cooper comes to investigate the murder of an Afrikaner police captain in the small town of Jacob’s Rest. Which I guess is what I should have expected from a murder mystery that takes places in a small town in apartheid South Africa.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |