Deadly Safari (Mass Market Paperback)

by Karin McQuillan (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Jazz Jasper comes to Kenya to escape a failed marriage and start her own safari company; one of her first contracts is a location-scouting expedition for Wild and Free Shampoo commercials. Out on the Serengeti Plain, one of the owners of the shampoo company, unpleasant bully Boyce Darnell, dies of an apparent heart attack. His demise is followed by the bloody murder with a spear of Jazz's friend Lynn. Police Inspector Omondi eliminates Jazz and her staff as suspects, identifying as the most likely perpetrators Darnell's widow, his partner Al, Al's wife Madge, an advertising executive who was Lynn's boss, and Candy, a model who'd been pursued, then fired by the dead man. Tensions grow in the camp as Jazz launches an investigation to save her fledgling business and avenge her murdered friend, discovering a number of motives based on old secrets and financial skulduggery. McQuillan's evident love for the African countryside, animals and people sets this otherwise pedestrian mystery apart, as does a sensitively handled love affair. Her fine eye for detail and a deft touch with characterization promise much for the future.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
Jazz Jasper has her hands full leading her first safari as an independent guide. Two wealthy American businessmen, two hungry reps from an advertising agency, and a beautiful blonde model give her more headaches than she'd ever imagined. But then two of them are killed mysteriously, and Jazz begins to suspect that her first safari may also be her last. But every animal -- even a desperate two-legged one -- leaves a trail, and Jazz, hardly certain whether she is hunter or game, sets about trapping a remorseless human predator.


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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 10 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett (August 13, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345370570
• ISBN-13: 978-0345370570
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,621,855 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a lyrical, captivating mystery, March 17, 1999

By	christel doucette (janesville, wisconsin) - See all my reviews

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A atmospheric and interesting series, December 3, 2000

By	Spikezilla "spiritual searcher" (Providence, RI USA) - See all my reviews

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.

3.0 out of 5 stars A mystery in Disneyland Africa, March 8, 2009

By	R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.