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Rated 5 stars4.5 Stars: 2nd book in a most promising series
Second in the Emmanuel Cooper series, LET THE DEAD LIE opens in 1953 in Durban, South Africa after a brief prologue in set in 1945 Paris which casts a framework defining Cooper's career and determined search for justice. The National Party's apartheid laws are in effect. The port town of Durban with its diverse racial groups and tribes does not easily fit into a black and white view of race. After his case in the first...
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Rated 5 starsLet the Dead Lie
Awesome read. Very engaging, unable to put down. Well wrtiiten with an immense amount of intrigue. I also read "A Beautiful Place to Die" by Nunn and would give it 5 stars. Read it first to be able to enjoy the full impact of "Let the Dead Lie"
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Rated 5 starsDurban dockside detective story lets no corpse lie undiscovered
This suspenseful novel from award-winning author Malla Nunn is taut and tightly paced. Set in 1953 in South Africa, a country that surrounds Nunn's country of birth, Swaziland, the detective novel masterfully blends all elements that are required in such a text. Whether it is read as a sequel to Nunn's impressive debut novel, A Beautiful Place to Die, or by itself matters little, but that it is most definitely worth reading...
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Rated 5 starsThe second Nunn novel - as good as the first
Having thoroughly enjoyed the first novel by the same author, I was looking forward to this one, and I wasn't disappointed. As a matter of fact, this one was easier to read because I had already learned so much about the race classifications for this era in South Africa from the first novel. The main character, Emmanuel, is wonderful, and such a good guy that it is easy to get caught up in the solving of the mystery. The plot...
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Rated 5 starsMeet the next great detective novel.
By now you've probably heard of Stieg Larsson's best-selling novel, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It's a fast-paced thriller set in Sweden, the first in a trilogy of books featuring Lisbeth Sanders, a quirky investigator/computer hacker and the "Girl" in the title. In this particular story, she teams up with Mikhail Blomkvist, a once-respected journalist who has fallen on hard times, to investigate the mysterious disappearance...
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