Margaret von Klemperer Reviews Pale Horses by Jassy Mackenzie
Verdict: carrot
Jassy Mackenzie’s P.I. Jade de Jong is one of South Africa’s most interesting fictional detectives, mainly because she is morally very ambiguous — the reader wants her to succeed so right can triumph, and because on one level she’s likeable and on the side of the angels. But there’s always an edge. De Jong’s actions cannot always stand up to moral scrutiny.
When Pale Horses opens, Jade is still suffering the aftereffects of her last case, and the end of her relationship with Superintendent David Patel who has returned to his now pregnant wife. When Jade is asked by Victor Theron to investigate the death of his base-jumping partner in what seems to have been an accident on a Sandton skyscraper, she is reluctant, but eventually agrees.
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- Pale Horses by Jassy Mackenzie
EAN: 9781415201640
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