| Description |
507 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Book 1 of the Inspector Beeslaar series
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Europa international mysteries and crime
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World noir |
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World noir.
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| Note |
In English, translated from the Afrikaans. |
| Summary |
Inspector Albertus 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. A beautiful and eccentric artist and her four-year-old adopted daughter are murdered on a local farm, and angry white farmers point to her enigmatic Bushman farm manager as a key suspect. 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. |
| Subject |
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Kalahari Desert -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Mystery fiction.
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Afrikaans fiction.
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| Added Author |
Dixon, Isobel, translator.
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Fowler, Maya, translator.
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| Added Title |
Plaasmoord. English
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| ISBN |
9781609454463 (paperback) |
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1609454464 (paperback) |
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