Dead Before Dying: A Novel
by Deon Meyer
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Read in February, 2008
Not bad, but not particularly good--if I'd read this Meyer first, I'd probably not have picked up another. The book is sung in the key of McBain, with a few strands of story (about separate crimes and characters in the Cape Town equivalent of a precinct) woven competently but less compellingly together.
There's less of the sociopolitical undertone to this, 'though (set in '96) it's hard to avoid some interesting conversations about race and racism, about the lingering aftereffects of the apa...more
There's less of the sociopolitical undertone to this, 'though (set in '96) it's hard to avoid some interesting conversations about race and racism, about the lingering aftereffects of the apa...more
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Read in January, 2007
I am not usually a mystery book kind of person, but I heard this aurthor on NPR and the book sounded interesting and it was. I really enjoyed it. It was something different and it worked out well.
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Read in April, 2008
recommends it for:
anyone in police work








