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Deadly Safari

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i loved this book. loved it! the characters are alive, the backdrop is breathtaking, the plot is gripping. every detail is well-thought-out and the storyline rushes along, plausible and probable. Jazz Jasper is a small-time independent safari guide struggling to keep her fledgling operation afloat and her clients safe and happy. I love the irony of the background - the beautiful, brutal African wilderness, but the threat from civilized man is greater as a murderer threatens Jazz and her entire tour group.

I'm in the middle of second of this series. I was especially drawn in by the vivid descriptions of Africa and the independent and spunky lead character. Jazz Jasper is an expatriate American trying to launch a tour business in Africa. A friend helps her to land a tour for an advertising firm scouting locations for a commercial campaign. A cast of assorted characters set out on their journey. Murder ensues. There is a nice Law and Order type twist at the end.

The San Diego Zoo opened a train ride through their version of Africa
in the late 70's.
Big parts of Kenya are tourist city like the Hawaiian islands, Disney World or Yucatan. In this novel a murder takes place on a Safari which
is pretty much a road trip where the guides try to keep the animals and people unhurt by each other.
The woman who runs the Safari is the one who sleeps around and
has a lot of strange ideas about wild life...
I really wasn't impressed and it is women like this that give American girls a bad name in the rest of the world? In the first few pages the author says there are Eucalyptus trees in Kenya and she got interested in Africa after reading the Indian book about Mowgli.
If all the rest of her jungle lore is on this order, the book needs a grain of salt with it? Kenya has turned into a rich people's amusement park and this novel show how political that can get.

Finding a new female mystery writer is always a treat for me. Karin McQuillan's novel, Deadly Safari has put me on to a new source of reading entertainment. Deadly Safari takes the reader to the wilds of the African Jungle where Jazz Jasper has thrown caution and common sense to the wind to run a Safari tour company. Her adventures paint a believable picture of that magnificent envirnoment with all the sights, sounds and smells completely intact. I particularly liked the action sequences and the interactions between the characters. The mystery is engaging and keeps the reader very much involved. What a great first novel. May there be many more.