The end (spoilers here, but not spoilers about who did the murder because that is actually the least interesting part of this book and that’s not a criticism): If I had to choose, I’d always go with the I suppose you’re wondering why I’ve brought you here today style of ending. From the get-go, it was clear that the book was going to be a nuanced exploration of racial and gender prejudice, and I was excited for it. When Aarti reviewed A Beautiful Place to Die recently, I was excited to read a murder mystery by a non-American-or-British author and set in a non-American-or-British place, and as I’ve said, a murder mystery featuring a male corpse. I can read about alive ladies doing things that alive people do. I don’t read that many murder mysteries, partly because it always seems to be women getting killed, and I get tired of reading about beautiful lady corpses. This probably happens more often than it seems to me to happen. It’s a murder mystery where the victim is male. The beginning: British police detective Emmanuel Cooper comes to investigate the murder of an Afrikaner police captain in the small town of Jacob’s Rest. Which I guess is what I should have expected from a murder mystery that takes places in a small town in apartheid South Africa.
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