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Original Title:	A Beautiful Place to Die ISBN13 9781405038775
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Detective Emmanuel Cooper #1
Characters:	Emmanuel Cooper, Davida Ellis, Hansie Hepple, Willem Pretorius, Donny Rooke, Anton Samuels, Erich Pretorius, Van Niekerk, Lieutenant Sarel Uys, Elliot King, Johannes Pretorius, Mr. Fernandez, Louis Pretorius, Lieutenant Piet Lapping, Frikkie Van Brandenburg, Butana, Constable Samuel Shabalala, Delores Bunton, Dlamini, Dr. Hans de Klerk, Du Toit, Head Constable Oliver Sparks, Jabulani, Lorenzo Marques, Miss Byrd, Mr. Frederick de Sousa, Mr. Voster
Literary Awards:	Macavity Award Nominee for Best First Mystery Novel (2010), Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (2010), Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel (2009), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for General Fiction and for Newcomer (2009)

A Beautiful Place To Die (Detective Emmanuel Cooper #1)

Malla Nunn

Trade paperback | Pages: 399 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 2755 Users | 492 Reviews

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Title	:	A Beautiful Place To Die (Detective Emmanuel Cooper #1)
Author	:	Malla Nunn
Book Format	:	Trade paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 399 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2008 by Pan MacMillan
Categories	:	Mystery. Cultural. Africa. Fiction. Southern Africa. South Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime

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In 1950s South Africa, the colour of a killer's skin matters more than justice. In this captivating debut novel, brilliant newcomer Malla Nunn explores the layers of racial divides in a small South African country town as Detective Emmanuel Cooper tracks the killer of an Afrikaan's police captain. While Cooper navigates his way through the towns labyrinthine partitions of race and class, his position becomes more dangerous and his life is put at risk as he confronts the ever harsher realities of South Africa under the new apartheid regime. Malla Nunn combines a thrilling, action-oriented plot with a thoughtful and complex portrayal of a particular time and place and the human desires that drive us all, regardless of race, colour or creed.

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A well written mystery that moves along building tension but ultimately fails from the 'big finish' syndrome, where an author not content to settle for a satisfying ending decides instead to build a grand cinematic finale.It's kinda like; our hero, unarmed and tied up, beaten and badly injured, rapidly losing blood, inside a locked room, opposed by fiendishly cleaver sadomasochistic villains, so now, only the intervention of the most improbable of circumstances will allow our hero to somehow

This is 3 and a half for me due to a few of the details in the plot that I found unnecessary, superfluous, and detracking from the story. But the details of life in South Africa of the time were interesting, and the main character Emmanuel Cooper, sufficiently interesting to read further books by this author.

Malla Nunn writes with such a sure and steady hand that it's hard to believe this is a first novel. She really knows how to string you along with the mystery, keeping you reading as the secret lives of the characters are slowly revealed. The mystery itself is excellent, but the intimate look at rural apartheid in South Africa is equally as interesting, if not more so. The story takes place in 1952, shortly after the National Party has enacted very strict new segregation laws. It's against the

I am indebted to Marilyn Brady for her recommendation to read Malla Nunns A Beautiful Place to Die. Not being interested in crime fiction, I most certainly would have missed reading it if not for Marilyns enticing review, and that would have been a pity because A Beautiful Place to Die is much more than genre fiction. It reminded me of the best of Graham Greene in the way that the novel explores how context and culture impact on crime and justice, and how survival in an intransigently corrupt

This outstanding debut novel got a well-deserved nomination for an Edgar award for best novel of the year (2010). Nunn creates a vivid portrait of South Africa in 1952, and sets into that world a memorable cast of characters.The main protagonist, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper, is sent to a small town to investigate the murder of the local police captain who is also the head of a prominent local family. Cooper soon finds himself up against the captain's family and the national security

First Sentence: Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper switched off the engine and looked out through the dirty windscreen.Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper is sent from Johannesburg to Jacob's Rest after a call comes in reporting a possible murder. What he finds is the body of the towns Afrikaner police captain, William Pretorius, and a confrontation with his volatile family. Members of the powerful Security Branch also arrive and push Cooper out, leaving his to investigate a peeping tom case

This superior thriller written by the gifted Malla Nunn is the first in a series featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper who plies his trade in the bleakness of Apartheid era South Africa. Navigating through racial tensions so poisonously thick he can almost taste them and fighting against a government that sees a communist behind every corner he's also hiding some secrets of his own that could be his undoing.As the story begins Cooper has been called to the backwater town of Jacob's Rest on the