This first book in a new mystery series by Michael Stanley introduces Detective Kubu. "Kubu" is the Setswana word for hippopotamus, and a fitting nickname for this large but tireless employee of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department. Kubu loves opera, food and drink in large quantites, and his wife Joy. Kubu dislikes being yelled at by his supervisor or his sister-in-law, but it happens with alarming regularity.
A deceptively slow pace brings the reader to the edge of her seat in this intricately plotted story featuring diamond smugglers and bushmen of the Kalahari. The details of modern life and landscape in Africa are worthy of any travel book.
Michael Stanley is the pen-name for the duo of Michael Sears and Stanely Trollip. Trollip divides his time between South Africa and Minneapolis--hence this first Detective Kubu story was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. --Jenny H.
Request a copy of A Carrion Death from Saint Paul Public Library.
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