Michael Stanley, Author . Harper $23.95 (467p) ISBN 978-0-06-125240-2
This impressive debut from Stanley, the South African writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip, introduces overweight assistant superintendent David Bengu of the Botswana Police Department, whose nickname is, fittingly, Kubu (Setswanan for...
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Michael Stanley, Author . Harper $24.99 (468p) ISBN 978-0-06-125249-5
In Stanley's fine second mystery to feature Botswana police detective David Bengu (after 2008's A Carrion Death
), Bengu, an overweight gourmet aptly nicknamed Kubu (Setswana for hippopotamus), investigates the murders of two male guests at an...
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Michael Stanley. Harper, $14.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-200037-8
Alexander McCall Smith fans interested in a different take on modern-day Botswana will find it in the intriguing third mystery from the team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip, who write under the Stanley pseudonym (after 2009's The Second Death...
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Michael Stanley. Harper/Bourbon Street, $14.99 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-222152-0
The real-life phenomenon of African witch doctors committing murder to get ingredients for their spells drives the richly atmospheric fourth Detective Kubu mystery (after 2011’s Death of the Mantis) from Edgar-finalist Stanley (the South African...
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Michael Stanley. Minotaur, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-07089-0
The fatal stabbing of David “Kubu” Bengu’s father, Wilmon Bengu, propels Stanley’s engrossing fifth mystery featuring the Botswana police detective (after 2013’s Deadly Harvest). Since Wilmon suffered from dementia and had a limited social life, the
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Michael Stanley. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-07090-6
David “Kubu” Bengu, an assistant superintendent in the Botswana CID, investigates a particularly baffling murder in his sixth, and best, outing (after 2015’s A Death in the Family). Ian McGregor, the pathologist for the Botswana Police Service in...
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Michael Stanley. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1167-6
This promising series launch from Edgar-finalist Stanley (the Detective Kubu series) introduces Crystal “Crys” Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American journalist who writes for a Minnesota paper. Crys becomes concerned about a close colleague, reporter...
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Michael Stanley. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1127-0
Thriller Award–finalist Stanley’s entertaining seventh mystery featuring policeman David “Kubu” Bengu (after 2017’s Dying to Live), a prequel, focuses on Bengu’s early days with the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department. In 1998, Bengu, who’s...
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Michael Stanley. White Sun, $16.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-9979689-8-9
Set in 1999, Edgar finalist Stanley’s excellent eighth mystery featuring Botswana’s Det. Sgt. David Bengu, the author’s second prequel (after 2020’s Facets of Death), finds Bengu, affectionately known as Kubu (or hippo, for his girth), still...
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