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Author:

Nunn, Malla.

Title:

A beautiful place to die : a novel / Malla Nunn.

Edition:

1st Atria Books hardcover ed.

Publisher:

Atria Books,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

375 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Police--South Africa--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
South Africa--Fiction.
South Africa--History--1909-1961--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.

Summary:

Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique, 1952. An Afrikaner police officer is found dead. Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of one Captain Pretorius.

ISBN:

1416586202 (alk. paper)
9781416586203 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)209702892

LCCN:

2008025858

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