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Michael Stanley
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The southern Kalahari area
of Botswana is a landscape of lost cities
buried beneath the moving sands, of
incredible hidden wealth, and of ancient
gods. For thousands of years it has been
home to the nomadic San people. When the
Germans lost the First World War, they also
lost the true riches of the land: the
Forbidden Coast, rich in alluvial diamonds.
A fractious ranger named Monzo is found
dead, fallen into a dry ravine, surrounded
by three San people. Were they trying to
help or were they the murderers? The local
police arrest the nomads, bringing back into
Detective Kubu’s life his old school...
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In this second detective
Kubu mystery, Michael Stanley’s memorable,
large detective faces another challenging
case that mixes murder and smuggling in
politically-charged northern Botswana.
When a guest is founded murdered at a
tourist camp on the lovely Linyanti River,
Detective Kubu is sent in to help the local
police stage an investigation. The victim is
quickly identified as Goodluck Tinubu, a
gentle Zimbabwean schoolteacher—yet from
there the case soon grows out of control. A
second corpse is found at the camp and a
third guest who fled the camp beyond the
Bostwana border without a trace. Odder
still, it turns out that Goodluck Tinubu’s
record states that he died years ago in the
Rhodesian bush war...
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In this mesmerizing
thriller, Michael Stanley penetrates
Africa’s exotic façade to share an authentic
look at a modern land caught between tribal
culture and globalism, colonial paternalism
and independence; a beautiful and wild
continent teeming with poachers, deadly
diamond dealers, and the aftermath of
apartheid.
They found the first body—what the hyena
didn’t ravage, that is—near a waterhole
considered magical by the local bush people.
A string of clues suggests that the victim
was murdered and his identity hidden—a
mysterious crime tailor made for Assistant
Superintendent David Bengu, nicknamed Kubu—Setswana
for hippopotamus. Though they look
deceptively docile, hippo in the wild are
deadly, trampling whatever lies ...
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