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The Gooseberry Fool

James McClure: The Gooseberry Fool (USA 2011)

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Hugo Swart, faithful churchgoer and respected citizen, is found stabbed to death on the floor of his kitchen just before Christmas, on the hottest night of the year. If Mr. Swart's Reverend is to be believed, no one in the world could have a reason to kill him; the murder was most likely a robbery gone ugly, and the chief suspect is Swart's black servant, Shabalala, who has fled to the countryside. But Lieutenant Kramer suspects that not everything is as it seems. While Zondi pursues Shabalala in what turns out to be a treacherous tour of miserable outlying Bantu villages, Kramer tries to wring the truth out of some of Swart's acquaintances in Trekkersburg and Cape Town -- it seems not everyone liked the victim quite as much as the Reverend did. But danger lies at every turn -- what will this investigation cost the duo?

McClure's merciless depiction of 1970s South Africa, its many layers of racism, and the gaps between rich and poor make this perhaps the most devourable book in the Kramer and Zondi series yet.

James McClure: The Gooseberry Fool. Soho Press, ISBN: 9781569479438 (June, 2011), 211 p., $14.00, eBook $9.99.

 

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The Gooseberry Fool

James McClure: The Gooseberry Fool (UK 1993)

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Who would want to kill Hugo Swart, by all accounts a quiet, civil employee and pious young bachelor? To Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Bantu assistant, Sergeant Mickey Zondi, the case looks straightforward - but things never seem to work out quite that easily.

James McClure: The Gooseberry Fool. A Kramer and Zondi Mystery. Faber & Faber, ISBN: 0571164943 (November, 1993), 192 p., £4.99.

 

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