The injustices and sheer evil of the situations and laws made for difficult reading at times, but perhaps that is what actually made this an excellent book.

I can say it rang very true of the times. It's hard to say that I enjoyed this book. Power, greed, and brutality are all too common as Cooper tries to stay away from the vengeance and muscles of those who have determined their own outcome choices. Secrets, forbidden photographs, twisted religion, and mixed race people confuse an already difficult case. Then there is also Cooper's haunting by his old WW2 Scottish Sergeant Major. Racial tensions dominate the investigation and the addition of the Immorality Laws (forbidding sex between the races) and a Peeping Tom case confuse everything. Cooper is having to work secretly and carefully because of the politically powerful Security Branch, which is determined to ring a confession from a 'black Communist' who was actually a man who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. : A Beautiful Place to Die: A Novel (Detective Emmanuel Cooper) (9781416586203) by Nunn, Malla and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.

He is aided by the town's only black Zulu police officer and a Jewish doctor transplant from WW2. Cooper is sent to investigate the murder of the local Afrikaner Police Captain -the father of the town's powerful Pretiorus family. The first in the Detective Emmanuel Cooper Mysteries, A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO DIE is set in 1950's apartheid South Africa.

A beautiful place to die by malla nunn