Malla Nunn

Emmanuel Cooper

1 - A Beautiful Place to Die (Jan-2009)
2 - Let the Dead Lie (Apr-2010)
3 - Blessed Are the Dead (Jun-2012)
4 - Present Darkness (Apr-2014)

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  A Beautiful Place to Die
  

  • Jan-2009
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  Emmanuel Cooper - 1
  

  Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for pow...

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  Let the Dead Lie
  

  • Apr-2010
  • / Police Procedural
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  Emmanuel Cooper - 2
  

  The second in a crime series set in 1950's South Africa when apartheid laws were first introduced. ...

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  Blessed Are the Dead
  

  • Jun-2012
  • / Police Procedural
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  Emmanuel Cooper - 3
  

  Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper returns in this powerful, atmospheric novel about two communities forced to confront each other after a murder that exposes their secret ties and forbidden desires in apartheid South Africa, by award-winning author ...

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  Present Darkness
  

  • Apr-2014
  • / Police Procedural
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  Emmanuel Cooper - 4
  

  Set in the corrupt, unforgiving world of apartheid South Africa, this novel in the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series follows Cooper as he faces a test of loyalty and friendship. Five days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper sits a...

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  When the Ground Is Hard
  

  • Jun-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  In this stunning and heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school, two girls of different castes bond over a shared copy of Jane Eyre. Adele Joubert loves being one of the popular girls at Keziah Christian Academy. She knows the upcoming s...

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  Sugar Town Queens
  

  • Aug-2021
  • / General Fiction
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  From Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and a powerful story of how friendship saves and heals.When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's goi...

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Award-Winning Books by Malla Nunn

When the Ground Is Hard
2019 L.A. Times Book Prize -- Young Adult Literature