The Leopard's Prey: A Jade Del Cameron Mystery - Hardcover

Though she carries a rifle instead of a parasol-sword and lives in colonial Africa instead of Egypt, Jade del Cameron is surely a literary cousin to Amelia Peabody, Elizabeth Peters’ amateur sleuth and champion of women’s rights. Yet readers expecting Peabody’s calm deliberation are in for a surprise. Jade shoots, twirls a lariat, pilots a plane, and rides a motorcycle better than most of the men she encounters in the British protectorate where she lives—and she routinely uses all of those skills to solve the mysteries that come her way. This time, it’s murder, and it’s the romantic interest in Jade’s life, mustachioed American Sam Featherstone, who is in trouble. A local merchant with a dubious reputation has been murdered, and Sam was seen arguing with him. Jade knows Sam is innocent, but on the way to proving it, she manages to crash-land a plane, find a missing woman, and come face-to-face with a very angry leopard. Can such a superwoman be tamed? Sam wants to try, but is Jade ready? --Stephanie Zvirin