Jade de Jong Series by Jassy Mackenzie
Jade de Jong #3
The Fallen
Jassy Mackenzie
When P.I. Jade de Jong invites Superintendent David Patel on a scuba diving holiday in St. Lucia, she hopes the time away will rebuild their conflicted relationship. Jade’s dreams are soon shattered when David calls off their affair, forcing her into the arms of environmentalist Craig Niewoudt. But the next morning, romantic issues are put aside when a scuba diving instructor, Amanda Bolton, is found brutally stabbed to death.Amanda is a most unlikely candidate for murder—a quiet and intelligent woman who until a few months ago pursued a high-powered career as an air traffic controller. She had few acquaintances and no lovers. The only loose end is a postcard in her room from Jo’burg-based Themba Msamaya, asking how she is doing “after 813 and The Fallen.” Jade and David put their differences aside and start the deadly hunt.
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Jade de Jong #4
Pale Horses
Jassy Mackenzie
At first, the case appears to be one of simple misadventure. Sonet van
Rensburg, a base jumper, falls to her death while attempting to
parachute off a newly built sixty-five-story Sandton skyscraper. But
Sonet's jumping partner Chris Theron insists that this was no accident,
and he hires private investigator Jade de Jong to uncover the truth.
Glad of the distraction from her conflicted and seemingly doomed
relationship with police superintendent David Patel, Jade immerses
herself in the case. She discovers that Sonet worked for a charity that
helped impoverished communities become self-supporting farming units.
Sonet's ex-husband, though, has nothing good to say about his wife or
the work she has done. He tells Jade that Sonet's efforts were a useless
waste of money and that the farming projects were not sustainable.
When Jade travels out to the Siyabonga community's farm in Limpopo,
hoping to prove him wrong, she finds it not just abandoned but razed to
the ground. Digging deeper for answers about where the residents went
and why they left their fertile valley, Jade finds out that one man died
from a terminal illness. Then, to her concern, she learns about more
sicknesses and more deaths... a fatal but unknown disease that swept
through the entire community.
Jade then discovers that Sonet's sister Teniel, a journalist, was
investigating this mystery too. Teniel had discovered that one woman and
her son had survived the plague and had left the area, and she was
doing her best to track that woman down so she could hear her story.
But now Teniel is missing, and Jade will have to race against time in
order to find her. A deadly harvest has been gathered in, and the only
person who knows the real truth about it has been forced to become
collateral in its trade.
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