A Mysterious Review of …
Pale Horses by Jassy Mackenzie. A Jade de Jong Mystery.
Review summary: This is a strong, intricately plotted, and really quite good crime novel, with information and clues that hint at relationships and links but not enough to definitely draw a line from one point to another. The answers all seem tantalizing close and yet not within reach, resulting in an exciting and suspenseful mystery. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Pale Horses
Jassy Mackenzie
A Jade de Jong Mystery
Soho Crime (April 2013)
Publisher synopsis: Johannesburg, South Africa: At first, the case appears to be one of simple misadventure. Sonet Meintjies, a base jumper, falls to her death while attempting to parachute off a newly built sixty-five-story skyscraper. But Sonet's jumping partner insists that this was no accident, and he hires private investigator Jade de Jong to uncover the truth.
Jade discovers that Sonet worked for a charity that helped impoverished communities become self-supporting farming units. When Jade travels out to the community farm in Limpopo, she finds it not just abandoned but razed to the ground. Digging deeper for answers about where the residents went, Jade learns about a fatal but unidentified disease that swept through the entire community. A deadly harvest has been gathered, and the person who knows the real truth about it has been forced to become collateral in its trade.
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