Dead Before Dying
This brilliantly atmospheric new suspense novel from a rising South African thriller writer--the acclaimed author of "Heart of the Hunter" and "Dead at Daybreak"--revolves around a Cape Town detective racing to solve a terrifying series of murders.
This brilliantly atmospheric new suspense novel from a rising South African thriller writer--the acclaimed author of "Heart of the Hunter" and "Dead at Daybreak"--revolves around a Cape Town detective racing to solve a terrifying series of murders.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316018692 (0316018694)
Publish date: February 1st 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Series:
Not bad, but not particularly good--if I'd read this Meyer first, I'd probably not have picked up another. The book is sung in the key of McBain, with a few strands of story (about separate crimes and characters in the Cape Town equivalent of a precinct) woven competently but less compellingly toge...
Set in South Africa a Cape Town police detective's tries to get both his personal and professional life back on the upswing while trying to solve a string of strange murders in which an antique Luger is used.