Michael Stanley

Broschiertes Buch

Facets of Death

Beschreibung

When a South African mine is robbed of 100,000 carats of diamonds and the thieves are murdered execution-style, Botswanaâ s Detective Kubu begins a terrifying international investigation in the prequel to the award-winning Detective Kubu series.

Autor

Michael Stanley is the writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Both were born in South Africa and have worked in academia and business. Stanley was an educational psychologist, specialising in the application of computers to teaching and learning, and is a pilot. Michael specialises in image processing and remote sensing, and teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand. On a flying trip to Botswana, they watched a pack of hyenas hunt, kill and devour a wildebeest, eating both flesh and bones. That gave them the premise for their first mystery, A Carrion Death, which introduced Detective ‘Kubu’ Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department. It was a finalist for five awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger. The series has been critically acclaimed, and their third book, Death of the Mantis, won the Barry Award for Best Paperback Original mystery and was a finalist for an Edgar award. Deadly Harvest was a finalist for an International Thriller Writers’ award. A Death in the Family and Dying to Live are the latest in the Detective Kubu series, published in 2017 by Orenda Books. Dead of Night the standalone thriller, was published in 2018.

Produktdetails

• A Detective Kubu Investigation
• Verlag: Orenda Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 129mm x 198mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781913193638
• ISBN-10: 1913193632
• Artikelnr.: 60742825