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Michael Stanley's Dying to Live is the sixth crime novel to feature the humble and endearing Detective Kubu, set against the richly beautiful backdrop of Botswana."A fantastic read. Brilliant!" -Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author of The Long Way HomeA Bushman is discovered dead near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Africa. Although the man looks old enough to have died of natural causes, the police suspect foul play, and the body is sent to Gaborone for an autopsy. Pathologist Ian MacGregor confirms the cause of death as a broken neck, but is greatly puzzled by the man's physiology. Although he's obviously very old, his internal organs look remarkably young. He calls in Assistant Superintendent David "Kubu" Bengu. When the Bushman's corpse is stolen from the morgue, suddenly the case takes on a new dimension.
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Follow Michael Stanley at https://www.facebook.com/MichaelStanleyBooks/Michael Stanley is the writing name of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Both natives of Africa, we have traveled regularly together to Botswana and Zimbabwe over the past twenty years to experience the country with its wide diversity and interesting peoples. Our books reflect the authentic Africa of the 21st century: not merely the politically unstable, desperately poor Africa of the nightly news, but also the emotional conflicts of people with one foot in traditional culture and the other in Western-instigated globalism. The new Africa is not a safari jungle, but a collection of diverse groups and nations struggling to find their way in a rapidly changing context. FACETS OF DEATH (Currently available in North America. Out in the UK in April 2021) "...easily one of the best heist novels I've read since Gerald Browne's classic 11 Harrowhouse." Bookpage starred review.Facets of Death is a prequel to the popular Detective Kubu series set in Botswana. In the previous books, Kubu is the senior detective in the Criminal Investigation Department in Gaborone. A large man - as his nickname Kubu (hippopotamus) suggests - he investigates complex murder cases with southern African backstories.Facets of Death is set in the late 1990s when Kubu first joins the Botswana CID as a raw detective. While he's trying to be accepted by the current staff and to make a role for himself in the CID, a massive diamond heist takes place on the road from Jwaneng - home of the world's richest diamond mine. It's immediately clear that this is no opportunistic robbery. The mine has a complicated security scheme in place, and Kubu and his boss, Assistant Superintendent Mabaku, immediately suspect an inside job. The robbers systematically eliminate all the witnesses, and then they are killed by the South African police, leaving the detectives with nothing to go on. Everyone who knew the mine's security plan is a possible suspect, including the director of the CID and the owners of the mine. And Mabaku and Kubu can't even trust the South African Police - maybe they grabbed the gems after they shot the robbers.Kubu and Mabaku are sure they can solve the case if only their contacts can stay alive long enough to point them in the right direction. However, when one of the mine's senior managers becomes the next victim, they are forced to set a trap for the crime's mastermind. If it fails, their careers are over - in Kubu's case before it's even begun.DEAD OF NIGHT (UK and outside North America) / SHOOT THE BASTARDS (North America) - STAND-ALONE THRILLERWhen her friend Michael Davidson goes missing while researching a National Geographic story on rhino poaching and rhino-horn smuggling, investigative journalist Crystal Nguyen leaves the snow of Minnesota and heads to the heat of Africa to try to find him and to finish his story. But within a week she'
