When Karin McQuillan's Deadly Safari appeared, The Washington Post Book World hailed her as "an excellent writer with the expertise of a seasoned novelist," and all the other critics agreed. Now she returns with another beautifully written, vividly detailed mystery set in present-day Africa. McQuillan's Kenya is Isak Dinesen's, seventy years later, a paradise lost but still breathtaking and rich in wildlife, with the potent magic to restore the spirits of Americans and Europeans in search of new beginnings.Recovering from a bad marriage and a worse divorce, American expatriate Jazz Jasper happily ekes out a living running safari tours and advocating for animal rights. But the Kenyan life of another American, wealthy Emmet Laird, whose Save the Elephants foundation combats the illegal slaughter of elephants, has just ended. His lifeless body is found beside an elephants' watering hole.Emmet's grieving lover, Mikki, presses her friend Jazz to investigate the crime, ostensibly with no strings attached. Jazz agrees, knowing that nothing in human affairs is ever simple; she is also aware that her friend Police Inspector Ormondi will severely disapprove of her interference.Nonetheless, Jazz skims the gossip of Nairobi's white community, cruises the city's dangerous back streets, and stalks her game high in the forested hills, vulnerable to all the country's natural and unnatural dangers and certain that the murderer she seeks will be someone she knows well.Elephants' Graveyard takes us into the heart of Africa at the end of a violent century. It's a sensuous world in which a pride of hungry lions is as painstakingly portrayed as an elegant Nairobi party - and the menagerie of man proves more ruthless and cunning than the jackals, vultures, and hyenas that run wild on the land. Read Less