Jassy mackenzie biography of abraham

Turning Dark History Into a Thriller

By Michael Sears

Jassy Mackenzie was born in Zimbabwe, moved to South Africa when she was eight years old, and now lives near Johannesburg on a small farm with her partner, two horses, and two cats.

When Jade de Jong's romantic relationship with police superintendent David Patel ends while on vacation in St. Lucia, she hardly has time to rebound before.

This is the story of Sara, who poses stiffly for a photo with her four children at Turffontein concentration camp in , and of Abraham, who paints the street.

Jassy Mackenzie lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was inspired to write her first thriller, Random Violence, after being carjacked at gunpoint in her.

Little Mackinaw, II; an account of the Assassination of Abraham.

Crime fiction continues to attract writers and readers with new books by Deon Meyer, Jassy Mackenzie, Wessel Ebersohn, Andrew Brown, Amanda Coetzee, Trevor.

She says she loves the energy, danger, and excitement of Johannesburg and believes there is no better place for a thriller writer to live.

She has written four successful novels featuring her P.I. Jade de Jong, a complex character with an ambivalent background, who goes looking for trouble when it doesn’t find her, the last being in Pale Horses four years ago.

Since then Mackenzie has been exploring other genres, but I’m delighted that she’s returned to thrillers and to Jade with BAD SEEDS, released in the U.S. by Soho. I asked the author about her attraction to mysteries and about the new book.

Over the last several years you’ve been writing romances.

Why did you decide to take a break from thril