Let The Dead Lie (Detective Emmanuel Cooper, #2)

Ranked #68 in South Africa

The second in a crime series set in 1950's South Africa when apartheid laws were first introduced.

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 1953. Forced to resign from his position of Detective Sergeant and re-classified as 'mixed race' after an incident involving a young black woman, Emmanuel Cooper winds up powerless and alone in the tough coastal city of Durban, mixing labouring with surveillance work for his old boss, Major van Nickerk. Patrolling the freight yards one night, he stumbles upon the body of a young white boy and the detective in him cannot, or will not, walk away. When two more...
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