A beautiful place to die

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Murder,  Police,  Investigation,  History,  Crime, fiction,  South africa, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, historical,  Police murders,  Apartheid,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Historical fiction, South African (English),  Detective and mystery stories, South African (English)

Places: South Africa

Times: 1909-1961