Elephants' Graveyard

Jazz Jasper #2

by Karin McQuillan

American expatriate Jazz Jasper happily ekes out a living running safari tours and working for animal rights. When the lifeless body of wealthy American Emmet Laird, head of the Save the Elephants foundation, is found beside a watering hole, Emmet's grieving lover, Mikki, presses her friend Jazz to investigate. But as Jazz stalks her game high in the forested hills and through the streets of Nairobi, she becomes certain that the murderer she seeks is someone she knows well . . .

Genres: Mystery, Africa, Fiction, Kenya

272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 23, 1993

About the author

Karin McQuillan is a psychotherapist and author of several mystery novels.

Series:
* Jazz Jasper

Reviews

[Melody · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very enjoyable. I would have liked the romance to turn out a bit differently and maybe a little follow up on Mikki, but that's personal preference. The story was well written, well-paced and mostly plausible. It hi-lighted a real problem (poaching) without getting preachy-a plus! Would definitely recommend this one.

[Ella Bennet]

insomma...
sarà che l'ho letto in modo un po' discontinuo ma non mi ha entusiasmata.
Importante il messaggio di condanna relativo al bracconaggio in particolare all'uccisione degli elefanti per l'avorio.

[Marsha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining story about poachers and ivory trade in Nairobi, Kenya.

[Karin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I missed the safari setting in this one but the background on ivory poaching was an interesting plotline.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chose this because it was set in Kenya

[Marcia Matthews · Rating 5 out of 5]

With the exotic setting of Kenya, the complex characters, and a rip-roaring adventure story, this novel achieves more than just a mystery. Heroine/sleuth Jazz Jasper faces danger with courage and quick-witted enterprise. Author Karin McQuillan draws upon themes relating the poaching of elephants to the victimization of girls by FGM, to the oppression of women and nature. Jazz throws herself into peril like a female Philip Marlowe, solves the murder and sees justice done. A very satisfying read.