The Safari
A Novel
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- ¥1,900
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“A must-read” (Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author) from the acclaimed author of The Main Character about a wealthy family drawn together on a South African safari, only for a series of shocking murders to rock their exclusive compound.
Odelia Babel, CEO of a sustainable fashion empire, is about to marry for the second time—to a man twenty-five years her junior. Asher Bach is the thirty-something designer of Odelia’s luxury clothing line, the darling of every high-fashion journalist, and madly in love with Odelia.
Eager to celebrate her nuptials with her nearest and dearest, Odelia invites her adult children, her daughter-in-law, her grandchild, and her best friend/assistant to an all-expenses-paid luxury safari at Leopard Sands in South Africa, the Babel family’s favorite vacation spot.
It seems like the perfect trip, but not everyone is thrilled for the happy couple. Amid game drives in the bush and bonfires beneath the desert stars, tensions among the family threaten to boil over. And then, the morning after a big fight with her son Sam—and hours before the wedding—Odelia is found murdered. Sam is immediately the prime suspect, but he claims he has an ironclad alibi—he was with his twin sister, Bailey. Only Bailey is nowhere to be found…
As the heat roils in this “cleverly constructed puzzler that brings all the delights of classic Golden Age mysteries into the 21st century” (Library Journal, starred review), desperate poachers and ferocious animals lurk, and dark motives fester, it becomes clear that whoever killed Odelia isn’t quite finished yet, and the rest of the Babel family is their prey.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A wealthy fashion family confronts secrets, lies, and murder in this disjointed mystery from former attorney Goldis (The Main Character). Odelia Babel, the 64-year-old CEO of billion-dollar luxury brand Circ, invites her family and her best friend to the Leopard Sands estate in South Africa, where she plans to marry Asher Bach, a much younger fashion designer. Odelia's three grown children are skeptical of the union, and concerned about what it might mean for their inheritances. The morning of the ceremony, Odelia is found dead. Suspicion immediately falls on her son, Sam, with whom she had a nasty fight the night before. But readers know that Odelia had already been receiving threatening letters, and it's gradually revealed that resentments have long been building within the Babel family. The setting is evocative, and Goldis lands a few trenchant jabs about sexism in the fashion industry, but she's less successful at making the voices of her six main characters distinctive, and the reveals, when they come, fall flat. This fails to ignite.
