BLESSED ARE THE DEAD

Detective Emmanuel Cooper returns to solve a chilling and disturbing mystery in this rich, complex novel.

Amahle is dead. The body of the beautiful, seventeen-year-old Zulu girl has been found covered in wildflowers on a hillside in the Drakensberg Mountains, halfway between her father’s compound and the enormous white-owned farm where she worked. Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper and Detective Constable Samuel Shabalala are sent to the dramatic landscape to investigate. They soon discover that Amahle’s life was woven into both the black and white communities in ways they could not have imagined. Emmanuel and Shabalala must enter the guarded worlds of a traditional Zulu clan and a divided white farming community to gather up the secrets she left behind and bring her murderer to justice. BLESSED ARE THE DEAD is the third in a crime series that includes A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO DIE and its sequel, LET THE DEAD LIE. The novels are set in 1950's South Africa when apartheid laws were first introduced. Malla Nunn was born in Swaziland, South Africa, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. She is a filmmaker with three award-winning films to her credit and is currently at work on her next novel.