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The second in a crime series set in 1950's South Africa when apartheid laws were first introduced.DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 1953. Forced to resign from his position of Detective Sergeant and re-classified as 'mixed race' after an incident involving a young black woman, Emmanuel Cooper winds up powerless and alone in the tough coastal city of Durban, mixing labouring with surveillance work for his old boss, Major van Nickerk. Patrolling the freight yards one night, he stumbles upon the body of a young white boy and the detective in him cannot, or will not, walk away. When two more bodies - this time an older English woman and her maid - are discovered at his boarding house, he unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in a triple murder case.
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Let the Dead Lie, Malla Nunn
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- 2010
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- Title
- Let the Dead Lie
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Malla Nunn
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster US
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 382
- ISBN10
- 1416586229
- ISBN13
- 9781416586227
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Murders, Detective Fiction, Series, Africa, South Africa, Apartheid
- Original title
- Let the dead lie
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
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- The second in a crime series set in 1950's South Africa when apartheid laws were first introduced.DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 1953. Forced to resign from his position of Detective Sergeant and re-classified as 'mixed race' after an incident involving a young black woman, Emmanuel Cooper winds up powerless and alone in the tough coastal city of Durban, mixing labouring with surveillance work for his old boss, Major van Nickerk. Patrolling the freight yards one night, he stumbles upon the body of a young white boy and the detective in him cannot, or will not, walk away. When two more bodies - this time an older English woman and her maid - are discovered at his boarding house, he unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in a triple murder case.