Brideprice

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Summary: Marilyn Stasio's first rate New York Times review.
Review: "In Africa," say the Africans, "nothing goes unseen." If that's really the case, Stephanie Duncan reasons in J.N. Catanach's sophisticated whodunit, BRIDEPRICE, then surely someone along the route of the four-day, 3,000 mile 1966 East African Safari Rally must have seen her parents career off a cliff on Mount Kenya in their classic Humber Super Snipe racing car....In this atmospheric adventure through Kenya, Mr. Catanach (the author of one previous mystery, "White Is the Color of Death") takes Stephanie over the same treacherous safari route, guided (and deliberately misguided) by an endlessly entertaining cast of characters....Without quite realizing it, she has also rediscovered her feelings for her native land, described here in a style that is detailed and subtle and in a tone that is quietly, beautifully haunting. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, June 18, 1998.