** This is taken from the back of the book, and from the inside cover, which contains comments about "Death in Kenya". My review follows. **




A new masterpiece of mystery and romance by the bestselling author of The Far Pavilions and Death in Zanzibar.

Lady Emily DeBrett loves her beautiful Kenyan home Flamingo, more, it could be said, than life itself . . .

Under her dominant personality the Rift Valley estate is recovering uneasily from the Mau Mau terrorist uprising. But for the small white community at Flamingo there are further terrors as a new danger now stalks among the pepper trees and jacarandas. For this time the murderer is in their midst . . .




A REVIEW FOR DEATH IN KENYA:

'A most exciting mystery story . . . extremely readable'

~Yorkshire Post


My Review

I was reading this recently at my cottage; a creaky old residence in Cape Cod, secluded and quiet. It was quite late at night, and I was curled up in bed reading this. And so the creaks and groans began (presumably the cottage settling??!!) and the book, which would have scared me in the best of conditions, did not help the situation much. Soon, even though the night was unbearably hot, I was in my sleeping bag and looking around nervously, wondering whether or not my sister would be angry with me if I woke her up for some company. Deciding that she would be, I spent a sleepless night, thrilling myself with the book and terrifying myself with my imagination. I had read Death in Kenya before, but I could not figure out 'whodunnit'!!!

The scene is set with a bit of history of Lady Emily's wonderful home, Flamingo, and her family. She lives there with her grandson Eden and his wife Alice. She could not run the place by herself, and so she sent for her young and attractive niece Victoria Caryll, who had once been involved with Eden. When it was too late for Victoria to turn back, Eden's wife Alice was brutally murdered. The murderer and murder weapon could not be found, and there was seemingly no motive . . .

The murder is followed by several others, but I shall not tell you anything more. It is a terrifying book, and if you want to scare yourself silly (you may not get as involved in books as I do, so it may not scare you at all) I really recommend Death in Kenya.


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