Random Violence
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
A dark winter’s evening. A lonely smallholding outside Johannesburg. A brutal shooting. The murder of solitary divorcee Annette Botha appears to be a botched hijacking, just another senseless crime in the surge of violence sweeping South Africa. Police superintendent David Patel investigates, with ex-boss's daughter Jade de Jong along for the ride. Newly returned to South Africa, Jade soon makes some troubling discoveries. Why did Annette hire a private detective a few days before she died? And why has the detective mysteriously disappeared? Meanwhle, Jade has plans of her own. The man who killed her father has just been released from prison, and he is in for a nasty shock. A betrayel sends her carefully-laid plans awry, and Annette Botha's murderer remains one step ahead. He's planning his final coup, and this time, there will be no witnesses...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in contemporary South Africa, Mackenzie s triumphant debut introduces PI Jade de Jong. After roaming the world for a decade, Jade returns home to Johannesburg to take her revenge on the convicted murderer, about to be released from prison, who she believes killed her highly respected police commissioner father. Meanwhile, David Patel, her father s former assistant, asks Jade for help in investigating the murder of Annette Botha, gunned down one night after getting out of her car to unlock a malfunctioning automatic gate outside her home. David and Jade later learn that robbers killed Botha s brother a few years earlier, and that the dead woman recently retained a detective, who has since disappeared. The plot has more than its fair share of nice twists, and Mackenzie does a superb job of making the reader care for her gutsy lead while offering a glimpse at life in South Africa after apartheid. Readers will wish Jade a long fictional career.
