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Cargando... Pale Horsespor Jassy Mackenzie
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |  I received this book for free through the Goodreads First Reads program. (  ) wandaly | Jun 30, 2016 | ) Rena613 | Jul 2, 2013 | Placing this book in a tidy nutshell, this is a classic 'who-dun-it' set in South Africa. A woman is dead, ostensibly killed in a base jumping accident. The worried boyfriend has engaged the services of the esteemed Jade to find the real killer before the cops come along and pin it on him. The setting adds somewhat to the novel as we get a small smattering of local color and culture one wouldn't expect in a more western-focused novel. Our author does a great job of misdirection and the ending is anything but the typical. I'm not a particularly regular reader of this genre but this veered off in a direction I didn't really expect at the outset. Mackenzie's rendering of character is vivid and her descriptions of violence or wonderfully graphic, though tasteful and used only when necessary. The downside here is that at times her novel seems a bit preachy and struggles to make a political point. While I agree at least in part with her assertions, the tactic she uses is at times overly blunt-force. On the whole, for fans of the suspense genre, this is a reasonably amusing series. The unique geography sets the book apart from most and the storyline doesn't fall into the usual predictable track. This is no Agatha Christie, but it's a fair start towards that standard. ( ) slavenrm | May 17, 2013 | ) MaryAnn12 | Apr 4, 2013 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesJade de Jong (4)
Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML: At first, the case appears to be one of simple misadventure. Sonet van Rensburg, a base jumper, falls to her death while attempting to parachute off a newly built sixty-five-story Sandton skyscraper. But Sonet's jumping partner Chris Theron insists that this was no accident, and he hires private investigator Jade de Jong to uncover the truth. Glad of the distraction from her conflicted and seemingly doomed relationship with police superintendent David Patel, Jade immerses herself in the case. She discovers that Sonet worked for a charity that helped impoverished communities become self-supporting farming units. Sonet's ex-husband, though, has nothing good to say about his wife or the work she has done. He tells Jade that Sonet's efforts were a useless waste of money and that the farming projects were not sustainable. When Jade travels out to the Siyabonga community's farm in Limpopo, hoping to prove him wrong, she finds it not just abandoned but razed to the ground. Digging deeper for answers about where the residents went and why they left their fertile valley, Jade finds out that one man died from a terminal illness. Then, to her concern, she learns about more sicknesses and more deathsâ??a fatal but unknown disease that swept through the entire community. Jade then discovers that Sonet's sister Zelda, a journalist, was investigating this mystery too. Zelda had discovered that one woman and her son had survived the plague and had left the area, and she was doing her best to track that woman down so she could hear her story. But now Zelda is missing, and Jade will have to race against time in order to find her. A deadly harvest has been gathered in, and the only person who knows the real truth about it has been forced to become collateral in its trade. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — Cargando...GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio: (3.5)
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