A beautiful place to die

By Malla Nunn

Subjects: History, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Fiction, Murder, Police murders, Police, Crime, fiction, Investigation, Apartheid, South africa, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural

Description: Cooper is dispatched to Jacob's Rest, a remote town deep in the bush, to look into a murder report. Arriving at Old Voster's farm, he finds the white police captain dead face down in a creek. Three of the Afrikaner's sons are present at the scene. Trouble comes when another son, a member of the feared Special Branch, arrives.