by Karin Brynard
translated by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon
Published: 2018
Publisher: Europa
Genre: Mystery, South Africa
Paperback: 507
Rating: 5
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Inspector Albertus Markus Beeslaar series:
Weeping Waters
Homeland - translation tba
First sentence(s):
The call came through just after two.
Inspector Albertus Markus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But his dream of rural peace is soon shattered by the repeated attacks of a brutally efficient crime syndicate, as he struggles to train and connect with rookie local cops, Ghaap and Pyl, who resent his brusqueness and his old-school ways.
Along with Ghaap and Pyl, Beeslaar is plunged into the intrigue and racial tensions of the community and finds that violence knows no geographical or ethnic boundaries.
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My two-bits:
Art, land, racism, greed intermingle in the first of this mystery series set in a small town in South Africa.
I liked getting to know the inspector and new team formed for future detective cases.
* part of Books, Inc. Foreign Intrigue Book Club (here)
