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Wait. They Did NOT Just Bury Her Sitting Up.

Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn

December 30, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper was brought up under rough circumstances in the slums of Johannesburg, South Africa.  Although mixed race, he presents as white, and managed as such to serve in the military for South Africa during WWII.  But since then, he has lost and then recovered his white papers in the turbulent years of the beginning of the apartheid period of the 1950s, due to the patronage of the Afrikaner Colonel van Niekirk, for entirely selfish reasons.  And with Cooper comes his best friend, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: 19502 South Africa, An emersive experience, Emanuel Cooper and Samuel Shabalala Best detective pair ever, Haters gonna hate, How can he be guilty when he puts a pillow behind her head every time he finds the body, Malla Nunn, Zulu customs

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:66 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: 19502 South Africa, An emersive experience, Emanuel Cooper and Samuel Shabalala Best detective pair ever, Haters gonna hate, How can he be guilty when he puts a pillow behind her head every time he finds the body, Malla Nunn, Zulu customs ·
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