First Impressions: G56 The Review of Pale Horses by Jassy Mackenzie
Name of Book: Pale Horses Author: Jassy Mackenzie ISBN: 978-1-61695-221-1 Publisher: Soho Crime Year it was published: 2012 Summary: Book 4 in the PI Jade de Jong thriller series set in South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa: At first, the case appears to be one of simple misadventure. Sonet Meintjies, a base jumper, falls to her death while attempting to parachute off a newly built sixty-five-story skyscraper. But Sonet’s jumping partner insists that this was no accident, and he hires private investigator Jade de Jong to uncover the truth. Jade discovers that Sonet worked for a charity that helped impoverished communities become self-supporting farming units. When Jade travels out to the community farm in Limpopo, she finds it not just abandoned but razed to the ground. Digging deeper for answers about where the residents went, Jade learns about a fatal but unidentified disease that swept through the entire community. A deadly harvest has been gathered, and the per...