Book description
The third novel in the fantastic Detective 'Kubu' Bengu crime series is
set in the southern Kalahari area of Botswana - a place full of buried
lost cities, incredible hidden wealth, ancient gods and, for thousands
of years, home to the nomadic Bushmen. When a fractious ranger named
Monzo is found dead, fallen into a donga - a dry ravine - surrounded by
three Bushmen, the local police arrest the nomads. Detective 'Kubu'
Bengu is on the case, which reunites him with his old school friend
Khumanego, a Bushman and now an advocate for his people. Khumanego
believes the arrests are motivated by racist antagonism from the police,
as the Bushmen are claiming that they were at the murder scene because
they were trying to help. Soon after Monzo's death, Detective 'Kubu'
learns of another case involving two botany students on their way back
from a specimen-collecting trip but who were later found dead, seemingly
poisoned, at a campground. Could the deaths be connected? Michael
Stanley is the writing team of native Africans Michael Sears and Stanley
Trollip. The two friends have had many adventures together, including
tracking lions at night, fighting bush fires on the Savuti plains in
northern Botswana, surviving a charging elephant, and losing their
navigation maps while flying over the Kalahari. Sears lives in
Johannesburg, South Africa. Stanley divides his time between South
Africa and Minneapolis, MN.
