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Also by Malla Nunn:

Blessed Are The Dead, June 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
A Beautiful Place To Die, January 2009
Hardcover

BLESSED ARE THE DEAD
By: Malla Nunn

Atria
June 2012
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Featuring: Emmanuel Cooper
ISBN: 1451616929
EAN: 9781451616927
Kindle: B004IK98CE
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery

Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper returns in this powerful, atmospheric novel about two communities forced to confront each other after a murder that exposes their secret ties and forbidden desires in apartheid South Africa, by award-winning author Malla Nunn.

The body of a beautiful seventeen-year-old Zulu girl, Amahle, is 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 Cooper and Detective Constable Samuel Shabalala are sent to the desolate landscape to investigate. They soon discover that Amahle’s life was woven into both the black and white communities in ways they could never have imagined. Cooper 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.

In a country deeply divided by apartheid, where the law is bent as often as it is broken, Emmanuel Cooper fights against all odds to deliver justice and bring together two seemingly disparate and irreconcilable worlds despite the danger that is arising.