- Fiction, Murder, Police, Investigation
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.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Malla Nunn
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 399
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan Australia, Pan Macmillan, Atria Books Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781416586203
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