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Present Darkness by Maslla Nunn

January 8, 2026 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

This is the last of series I’ve been reading starring Detective Sergeant Cooper, Detective Constable Shabalala, and Doctor Zweigman in 1950s apartheid South Africa, or, as I have come to think of them, as Kirk, Spock and Bones (assuming Spock were a family man).  It is that family that is in the thick of this book.  Shabalala’s teen aged son has been accused of the murder of a white couple by their teenaged daughter.  That seems to be hard to believe, but she is sticking […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1950s South Africa, Complicated family issues, Cooper/Shambalala series, Maslla Nunn, Oh yeah there are murders, Police correption, Racial issues, Teens are gonna do what they do

elderberrywine's CBR18 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1950s South Africa, Complicated family issues, Cooper/Shambalala series, Maslla Nunn, Oh yeah there are murders, Police correption, Racial issues, Teens are gonna do what they do ·
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