The Cheetah Chase
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Very good mystery set in Africa.
Journal Entry 2 by tenneh at Via Mail in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, Nebraska USA on Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Released 19 yrs ago (10/7/2004 UTC) at Via Mail in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, Nebraska USA
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Placed in mlbish's I Don't Want To Move It Bookbox. Going to jenvince.
Placed in mlbish's I Don't Want To Move It Bookbox. Going to jenvince.
Took out of mlbish's I Don't Want To Move It Bookbox. Looks great! I love discovering new mystery writers! :)
I enjoyed this book a lot. Enough that I'd like to read the other two in this series. A good cozy mystery, set in Africa. Makes me want to move to Kenya! I really liked the main character, Jazz (what a great name!). She is one spunky gal!! New author for me - thank you, BookCrossing! :)
Accepted by Annelis on the "Mysteries and Thrillers" Relay - mailing today.
The book arrived today. It looks very interesting.
Thank you very much, Jenvince!
"Everything anyone could want," said Tony Hillerman about Karin McQuillan's first Kenya novel, Deadly Safari. "Suspense, real people as characters, and real untamed Africa out there in the darkness."
The author's passionate affinity with Kenya continues in The Cheetah Chase, her third Jazz Jasper mystery - a novel inspired by the changes that are radically altering the most beautiful and romantic of African nations.
There's little demand these days for American expatriate Jazz Jasper's safari tours, which is why she happens to be staying with Nick Hunter and his American wife, Wynn, at their isolated cheetah preserve in northeastern Kenya. But her visit is interrupted by tragedy when Nick, an investigative journalist and dedicated preservationist, dies from the sting af a scorpion - though not one indigenous to the region.
Medical researchers conclude that this lethal specimen is an imported Sahara scorpion and it seems to Jazz that a remarkably clever murder has been committed.
The search for the truth about Nick's death leads to an exclusive white suburb af Nairobi, built on land where Isak Dinesen once grew coffee. From there, Jazz embarks on a sweeping adventure that takes her into the desert, to a Saudi hunting camp, and into a mountain cave where present-day Africans live as they did thousands of years ago. For Jazz it is a journey from which there may be no return. And in the interplay of characters and emotions, a pattern becomes visible, a shocking design woven in vibrant African colors from universal threads of hate and greed - nothing less than a design for murder.
With its incandescent depiction of contemporary Africa, The Cheetah Chase is Karin McQuillan's crowning achievement to date.
Karin McQuillan worked in Afrika as a Peace Corps volunteer and is a committed naturalist. She divides her time between Massachusetts and Vermont. Ms. McQuillan made her crime fiction debut with Deadly Safari and followed it with Elephants' Graveyard. The Cheetah Chase is her third Jazz Jasper mystery.
Thank you very much, Jenvince!
"Everything anyone could want," said Tony Hillerman about Karin McQuillan's first Kenya novel, Deadly Safari. "Suspense, real people as characters, and real untamed Africa out there in the darkness."
The author's passionate affinity with Kenya continues in The Cheetah Chase, her third Jazz Jasper mystery - a novel inspired by the changes that are radically altering the most beautiful and romantic of African nations.
There's little demand these days for American expatriate Jazz Jasper's safari tours, which is why she happens to be staying with Nick Hunter and his American wife, Wynn, at their isolated cheetah preserve in northeastern Kenya. But her visit is interrupted by tragedy when Nick, an investigative journalist and dedicated preservationist, dies from the sting af a scorpion - though not one indigenous to the region.
Medical researchers conclude that this lethal specimen is an imported Sahara scorpion and it seems to Jazz that a remarkably clever murder has been committed.
The search for the truth about Nick's death leads to an exclusive white suburb af Nairobi, built on land where Isak Dinesen once grew coffee. From there, Jazz embarks on a sweeping adventure that takes her into the desert, to a Saudi hunting camp, and into a mountain cave where present-day Africans live as they did thousands of years ago. For Jazz it is a journey from which there may be no return. And in the interplay of characters and emotions, a pattern becomes visible, a shocking design woven in vibrant African colors from universal threads of hate and greed - nothing less than a design for murder.
With its incandescent depiction of contemporary Africa, The Cheetah Chase is Karin McQuillan's crowning achievement to date.
Karin McQuillan worked in Afrika as a Peace Corps volunteer and is a committed naturalist. She divides her time between Massachusetts and Vermont. Ms. McQuillan made her crime fiction debut with Deadly Safari and followed it with Elephants' Graveyard. The Cheetah Chase is her third Jazz Jasper mystery.
It is nice find new writers and books set in exotic places. I must say that I like more Mma Ramotzwe's Africa, though. I am not so adventurous anymore as I was in my younger days.
This story is a good cosy detective story, but unfortunately some things in the book like corruption, pollution and slaughter of wild animals have their base in the reality.
Thank you Jenvince for making it possible for me to read this book. I think I'll find new readers for this here in Finland.
This book (and a couple others) will stand for Kenia in my challenge A Book from Every Country
This story is a good cosy detective story, but unfortunately some things in the book like corruption, pollution and slaughter of wild animals have their base in the reality.
Thank you Jenvince for making it possible for me to read this book. I think I'll find new readers for this here in Finland.
This book (and a couple others) will stand for Kenia in my challenge A Book from Every Country
Mystery set in Kenya.!? Thanks Annelis and tenneh.
This was a fun read. Thanks for a chance of reading this, Annelis. I have no experience of Africa my own. Yet I think this book had a touch of Africa. There were plenty of wild life, but it wasn't that to me. I think it was the fast changes of culture and nature so pessimistically described in the book. Whites are there for business or pleasure or escaping their own lives. The last motive was a bit too romanticized for me.
Adventures were many and ok. Two things I could have lived without were Jazz's relations with men and the description of her friend's nipples. They were quite unnecessary for solving the murder mystery and they were boring also. I liked chases and fights much better. Most of all I liked the scene (and scenery) in Lodoga's mountain cave.
Book goes to Katyan. Jaatiina has also asked for it.
Adventures were many and ok. Two things I could have lived without were Jazz's relations with men and the description of her friend's nipples. They were quite unnecessary for solving the murder mystery and they were boring also. I liked chases and fights much better. Most of all I liked the scene (and scenery) in Lodoga's mountain cave.
Book goes to Katyan. Jaatiina has also asked for it.
This book arrived to us on Friday, and before opening the envelope we had a bet with Satya which book would it be. So I was guessing for the "Leaf in the wind" (that dotdot is also going to send us, no hurry, we have plenty of books still to read) and Satya was guessing more for this book, as she likes more cheetahs than leaves ... :). And so she won the bet! So the winner will have her picture with the book in this journal entry, I just forgot to take the picture with me today, so I'll put it here later!
Thank you dotdot and all the others sending this book forward, we are happy to read this book as soon as possible!
Thank you dotdot and all the others sending this book forward, we are happy to read this book as soon as possible!
Finally I finnished reading this book, and I truly enjoyed it! It was very nice to read, and full of positive woman energy :). I'll send this book soon to the next reader!
I read this book also as a part of my Book from every country in the world-challenge (Kenya).
I read this book also as a part of my Book from every country in the world-challenge (Kenya).
Journal Entry 13 by katyan at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Thursday, January 5, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (1/5/2006 UTC) at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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I heard Sirah also wanted to read this book so I sent it to her this morning. Enjoy!
I heard Sirah also wanted to read this book so I sent it to her this morning. Enjoy!
Thank´s for The Cheetah Chase. Really looking forward reading it!
Well, Africa is my continent! I liked the descriptions of the wild nature and the tribes, but there was too much of love making. And what got Jazz´s friend´s nipples to do with the mystery? Easy to read, fun.
I got this book yesterday. It may take a while before I can read this, but I'm looking forward to do it.
This book was easy to read. Actually this is the first book in English that I'v read. I enjoyed reading it.
Journal Entry 18 by lunatum at OYS Oulun yliopistollinen sairaala in Oulu, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa / Norra Österbotten Finland on Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (5/8/2007 UTC) at OYS Oulun yliopistollinen sairaala in Oulu, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa / Norra Österbotten Finland
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Vapautus on osa Kirjan ja Ruusun päivän massavapautusta.
Vapautus on osa Kirjan ja Ruusun päivän massavapautusta.