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A Beautiful Place to Die

Malla Nunn

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#3717 of 8,085 books · #588 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (2010).

Screenwriter Nunn draws on her true-life experience growing up in Africa to create this darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa. Detective Emmanuel Cooper is caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make for dangerous times.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
ISBN-13
9781416586203
Topics
Apartheid and racial tensionMurder investigationPower and corruption

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