Synopsis
American expatriate Jazz Jasper has launched a new business, running safari tours in Kenya. When the lifeless body of wealthy American Emmet Laird, head of the Save the Elephants foundation, is found beside a watering hole, Emmet's girlfriend, Mikki, presses Jazz to investigate.
Jazz stalks her game high in the forested hills and through the streets of Nairobi, with the help of Kenyan police detective, the charming Inspector Omondi. From the Paperback edition.
About the Author
My mother was a tremendous reader and mystery fan, and I followed in her footsteps. When I wrote Deadly Safari, I had just finished reading every novel by Nero Wolf, Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. Deadly Safari is actually an country house mystery transposed to a safari.
Why Africa? My father was a combat photographer who saw all the front line action of World War II starting at Omaha Beach. Back home, it was hard to find work as a cameraman, so my Dad took a six month assignment doing wildlife filming in Kenya when I was small.
I grew up on the wonderful stories he brought back. I wanted to be like him. Put my love of mysteries and my love of African adventure together, and a few decades later, when I put pen to paper, it was to create my African wildlife mysteries starring Jazz Jasper, an American woman running a safari company.
By that time, Africa was more than just stories to me. I joined the Peace Corps right after college and a few weeks later found myself in Senegal, where I was to live for the next year in a village down near the Guinee border, where we could hear shelling at night from their civil war. Elephants Graveyard contains many elements from this Peace Corps experience, other adventures gleaned from the memoirs of early African adventurers and biologists, and of course, a healthy dollop of imagination.
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