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Michael Stanley

Michael Stanley Excerpt: Dying to Live

By Michael Stanley

October 19, 2017

Dying to Live by Michael Stanley is the sixth crime novel to feature the humble and endearing Detective Kubu, set against the richly beautiful backdrop of Botswana (available October 24, 2014). A Bushman is discovered dead near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Africa. Although the man looks old enough to have died of natural causes,…

A Death in the Family: A Detective Kubu Mystery by Michael Stanley

A Death in the Family: Exclusive Excerpt

By Michael Stanley

October 21, 2015

A Death in the Family by Michael Stanley is the 5th procedural mystery featuring Detective Kubu of the Botswana police department (available October 27, 2015). “There's no easy way to say this, Kubu. Your father's dead. I'm afraid he's been murdered.” Faced with the violent death of his own father, Assistant Superintendent David 'Kubu' Bengu,…

Southern African Crime Fiction on the World Stage

By Michael Stanley

January 8, 2015

Over the last ten years there has been an explosion of authors writing contemporary crime fiction set in southern Africa. Four of the ten crime fiction novels published in South Africa last year were debut authors to the genre (Kurt Ellis, Penny Lorimer, Joanne Macgregor, Charlotte Otter). How have readers elsewhere in the world reacted…

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