A burned-out Johannesburg cop is re-assigned to a remote police station at the edge of a desert, and arrives just in time for a spate of bizarre farm murders, in Karen Brynard's debut thriller Weeping Waters.
The story follows both the detective, with his two rookie assistants, and a young woman whose estranged artist sister meets a grisly end.
Brynard is a former investigative reporter in South Africa turned crime writer, and her background lends itself to a writing style full of interesting details and characterizations.
The unraveling of the crime itself was almost of secondary interest to me (and she spends the last chapter basically outlining how it all transpired, in a sort of anticlimax). I found myself more caught up in the cultural and political aspects of contemporary South Africa.
The cover listed this as the first of the series, and the first translated into English, so I am looking forward to the next entry. Recommended for police procedural fans interested in a different perspective.
This was sent to me by World Noir for review, and I read it quickly.
The story follows both the detective, with his two rookie assistants, and a young woman whose estranged artist sister meets a grisly end.
Brynard is a former investigative reporter in South Africa turned crime writer, and her background lends itself to a writing style full of interesting details and characterizations.
The unraveling of the crime itself was almost of secondary interest to me (and she spends the last chapter basically outlining how it all transpired, in a sort of anticlimax). I found myself more caught up in the cultural and political aspects of contemporary South Africa.
The cover listed this as the first of the series, and the first translated into English, so I am looking forward to the next entry. Recommended for police procedural fans interested in a different perspective.
This was sent to me by World Noir for review, and I read it quickly.
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