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Weeping waters / Karin Brynard ; translated from the Afrikaans by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon.
Van Pelt Library PT6593.12.R96 P5313 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brynard, Karin, author.
- Series:
- World noir
- Inspector Beeslaar series ; book I
- Standardized Title:
- Plaasmoord. English
- Language:
- Afrikaans
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
- Murder--Investigation.
- Kalahari Desert--Fiction.
- Africa--Kalahari Desert.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Afrikaans fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 507 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2018.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Afrikaans.
- Summary:
- "Inspector Albertus Markus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But this dream of rural peace is soon shattered by the repeated attacks of a brutally efficient crime syndicate. Along with two rookie cops Ghaap and Pyl, Beeslaar is plunged into the intrigue and racial tensions of the community and finds that violence knows no geographical or ethnic boundaries"--Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- "Europa international mysteries and crime"--Cover.
- "First publication in Afrikaans in South Africa as Plaasmoord by Human & Rousseau, 2009 ; First publication in English in South Africa as Weeping Waters by Penguin Random House South Africa, 2014"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9781609454463
- 1609454464
- OCLC:
- 1029056463
- Publisher Number:
- 99979273938
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