You’re like your cousin, you don’t know what effect you have on other people, so you sail through life not looking back at the people you’ve left behind in your wake. One of the biggest surprises is reconnecting with his estranged best friend, Bennie. Although Jacobs is reasonably assured of the presumed guilt of Desiree’s husband, Hector, when he sets foot on South African soil, he soon finds that many surprises await him. However, it soon becomes apparent that Jacobs intends to use the story to try and revive his dwindling writing career. At first, the reader assumes that he travels to South Africa out of concern for his deceased cousin, Desirée. When his cousin is murdered in the small South African town where he grew up, he packs his bags and sets off for South Africa to learn about what happened.Īs a gay and somewhat bitter man, Jacobs is far from the traditional Sherlock Holmes-like detective figure. At the novel’s start, he’s a middle-aged man whose journalism career has not amounted to much. The novel’s protagonist, Peter Jacobs, is a South African expatriate living in London since he was 18. Lost Ground is a crime novel by the famous South-African author Michiel Heyns. Lost Ground by Michiel Heyns Book cover image for Lost Ground The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
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