Book Review: Who Killed Piet Barol?

RICHARD MASON’s picaresque History Of A Pleasure Seeker garnered strong reviews back in 2011, cementing Mason’s reputation as a skilled and versatile literary author.

This tangential sequel finds Piet and Stacey de Barol frantically prolonging their aristocratic masquerade among the South African white elite of 1914.

Near-bankrupt, Piet journeys to the remote Gwadana Forest on a quest for a mythical (and free) ‘furniture tree’ with which to save reputation and lifestyle, guided by two servants whose Xhosa tribe resides deep inside the forest.