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Title	:	A Beautiful Place To Die (Detective Emmanuel Cooper #1)
Author	:	Malla Nunn
Book Format	:	Trade paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 399 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2008 by Pan MacMillan
Categories	:	Mystery. Cultural. Africa. Fiction. Southern Africa. South Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime

A Beautiful Place To Die (Detective Emmanuel Cooper #1)

Malla Nunn

Trade paperback | Pages: 399 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 2755 Users | 492 Reviews

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In 1950s South Africa, the colour of a killer's skin matters more than justice. In this captivating debut novel, brilliant newcomer Malla Nunn explores the layers of racial divides in a small South African country town as Detective Emmanuel Cooper tracks the killer of an Afrikaan's police captain. While Cooper navigates his way through the towns labyrinthine partitions of race and class, his position becomes more dangerous and his life is put at risk as he confronts the ever harsher realities of South Africa under the new apartheid regime. Malla Nunn combines a thrilling, action-oriented plot with a thoughtful and complex portrayal of a particular time and place and the human desires that drive us all, regardless of race, colour or creed.

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Original Title:	A Beautiful Place to Die ISBN13 9781405038775
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Detective Emmanuel Cooper #1
Characters:	Emmanuel Cooper, Davida Ellis, Hansie Hepple, Willem Pretorius, Donny Rooke, Anton Samuels, Erich Pretorius, Van Niekerk, Lieutenant Sarel Uys, Elliot King, Johannes Pretorius, Mr. Fernandez, Louis Pretorius, Lieutenant Piet Lapping, Frikkie Van Brandenburg, Butana, Constable Samuel Shabalala, Delores Bunton, Dlamini, Dr. Hans de Klerk, Du Toit, Head Constable Oliver Sparks, Jabulani, Lorenzo Marques, Miss Byrd, Mr. Frederick de Sousa, Mr. Voster
Literary Awards:	Macavity Award Nominee for Best First Mystery Novel (2010), Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (2010), Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel (2009), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for General Fiction and for Newcomer (2009)

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I'm sort of in two minds about this book. I liked the style of writing and Emmanuel Cooper, the protagonist and detective in this story. The story itself was a little less exciting, and, at times, downright confusing. There was a lot of talk of sex and at times it felt very graphic and unpleasant, as well as a rather unnecessary amount of violence and gore. I know this story was meant to give the reader a glimpse of South Africa in the 50s, and maybe the author painted an accurate picture, I

If you love police procedurals get on this series right now! The author is only three books in and they are absolutely fantastic. I love a great mystery, especially one that can educate me on a part of history I know nothing about beyond the basics. The hero of the books is English police detective Emmanuel Cooper, trying to balance the tensions of learning the truth to solve the case, and the racial policies of 1950s apartheid South Africa. The white police captain has been found murdered in

A well written mystery that moves along building tension but ultimately fails from the 'big finish' syndrome, where an author not content to settle for a satisfying ending decides instead to build a grand cinematic finale.It's kinda like; our hero, unarmed and tied up, beaten and badly injured, rapidly losing blood, inside a locked room, opposed by fiendishly cleaver sadomasochistic villains, so now, only the intervention of the most improbable of circumstances will allow our hero to somehow

Initially I really enjoyed this first in the Detective Inspector Emmanuel Cooper series, however my enjoyment did wane a little throughout and Im not entirely sure why. I listened to it as an audiobook, so perhaps I just lost interest at times depending on what I was doing (and how much my brain needed to concentrate on the other task) while listening to it? I liked the South African setting, and the Detective Inspector, and Constable Shabala, and Zweigman, the old Jew. Naturally I deplored the

I am indebted to Marilyn Brady for her recommendation to read Malla Nunns A Beautiful Place to Die. Not being interested in crime fiction, I most certainly would have missed reading it if not for Marilyns enticing review, and that would have been a pity because A Beautiful Place to Die is much more than genre fiction. It reminded me of the best of Graham Greene in the way that the novel explores how context and culture impact on crime and justice, and how survival in an intransigently corrupt

Malla Nunn does deal with some terrible aspects of South African history and culture - terrible when viewed from an Australian perspective - but she never bashes you over the head with any moralising, which would have been so tempting. She lets characters in the story destroy themselves and their culture through their actions - her writing is good crime stuff but in the tradition of the best writers she reflects on social issues and gives insights to those of us who have not experienced them. A

A Beautiful Place to Die is a cracker of a novel. In the book we see 1950s South Africa through the eyes of Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper, sent to investigate the death of an Afrikaner police captain in the small town of Jacobs Rest near the border with Mozambique.Emmanuel reminds me of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander, polite, neither unkind nor easily intimidated, resigned to his lot of long days and headaches, and wearily facing down human cruelty in all its petty, pathetic and monstrous