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Michael Stanley is the writing partnership of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Michael lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Stanley in Minneapolis.
We have travelled extensively in southern Africa and have a special love of Botswana, where our detective novels are set.
Detective Kubu investigates complex murders in his native land, justifying his nickname by his size and tenacity (Kubu is Setswana for hippopotamus).

Kubu's faces powerful people and an escalating chain of murders in his first adventure - A Carrion Death.

Next a confluence of events leads to murders whose roots lie hidden in the past, in The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu (A Deadly Trade outside north America).

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	A Carrion Death (Detective Kubu, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 2,011 ratings — published 2008 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death of the Mantis (Detective Kubu, #3) 3.89 avg rating — 1,605 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Death Of Goodluck Tinubu (Detective Kubu, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 1,100 ratings — published 2009 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadly Harvest (Detective Kubu, #4) 4.12 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Death in the Family (Detective Kubu, #5) 4.01 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dying to Live (Detective Kubu, #6) 4.03 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Facets of Death (Detective Kubu, #7) 4.15 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Detective Kubu Investigates 3.93 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Deadly Covenant (Detective Kubu, #8) 4.13 avg rating — 103 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead of Night 4.11 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Powerfully written novel set in Maine in the Charlie Parker series. There's a touch of the supernatural, but the main threat is a gangster whose empire is collapsing. As usual, Connolly gets the characters just right. ...more
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“Motho ke motho ka batho, meaning “I am because you are,” and was a social contract of earning respect by first giving it.”
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“The sky was filled with the gods and his ancestors. Watching him, bright-eyed. They were so close, he could hear them whisper. He flung his arms upward to embrace them and started to dance, slowly at first, then picking up speed. Feet stamping, body spinning. Dancing faster and faster. Eyes closed. Spinning. Spinning. His ancestors clapped in time to the music, urging him on. Around and around he went. Around and around. Until he fell onto the red sand, exhausted. And his mind left his body and joined the spirit world.”
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Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay

9 votes, 28.1%

A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

4 votes, 12.5%

An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson

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Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

4 votes, 12.5%

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

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Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman

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Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett

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The Genius by Jesse Kellerman

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A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley

2 votes, 6.3%

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