Murderous Africa
An African tour of mystery and mayhem, exploring the continent through their famous literary detectives.
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 | BENIN |
| Instruments of Darkness |
| Robert Wilson introduces Bruce Medway, whose existence as a fixer and troubleshooter in West Africa had been tough, but never life-threatening, until he seeks an elusive fellow expat, and crosses the path of the mighty Madame Severnou. |
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 | BOTSWANA |
| A Carrion Death |
| Michael Stanley introduces Assistant Superintendent David Bengu of the Botswana Police Department, whose nickname is, fittingly, Kubu (Setswanan for hippopotamus) -- investigating the case of a partially consumed human body found in a remote area of a game reserve. |
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 | BOTSWANA |
| The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency |
| Alexander McCall Smith’s Precious Ramotswe, sets up her detective shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, and is immediately hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, follow a wayward daughter, and search for a missing boy who may have been snatched by witch doctors. |
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 | GHANA |
| Wife of the Gods |
Kwei Quartey’s Detective Inspector Darko Dawson is sent to the village of Ketanu to solve the murder of a young AIDS worker -- his own mother disappeared from this same village many years ago, and as the mystery unfolds, he discovers the shocking truth about his own past.
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 | ISRAEL |
| The Saturday Morning Murder |
| Batya Gur’s Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon, a Moroccan former history student forced from the doctoral program at Cambridge into a marriage now ended in divorce, seeks to find out who shot an eminent Jerusalem psychiatrist just before she was to deliver a Saturday morning lecture. |
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 | PALESTINE |
| The Collaborator of Bethlehem |
Matt Beynon Rees’ Omar Yussef, is a schoolteacher in Bethlehem, struggling to teach history unfettered by politics -- when a PLO soldier is murdered, and a Palestinian Christian is arrested for the crime, he launches his own investigation.
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 | SAUDI ARABIA |
| Finding Nouf |
When rich 16-year-old Nouf goes missing, taking with her a truck and a camel, Zoe Ferraris introduces us to Katya Hijazi, Nouf’s brother’s fiance, who works in the forensic department, and seeks a solution that will keep their family honor intact under all circumstances.
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 | SOUTH AFRICA |
| A Beautiful Place to Die |
| Malla Nunn begins her Detective Sgt. Emmanuel Cooper series in 1952, with the murder of a white police captain in a small South African town riddled with apartheid -- wrestling with Special Branch police officers searching for communist connections to the crime, he’s also targeted for stretching the boundaries between black and white. |
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 | SOUTH AFRICA |
| Dead Before Dying |
Deon Meyer’s hulking police captain, Mat Joubert, is nearly suicidal after the death of his wife, who was killed in the line of duty as an undercover agent -- his new commanding officer gives him one last chance to prove himself.
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 | SOUTH AFRICA |
| Random Violence |
| After roaming the world for a decade, Jassy Mackenzie’s character, Jade de Jong, returns home to Johannesburg to take her revenge on the convicted murderer, about to be released from prison, who she believes killed her highly respected police commissioner father. |
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 | SOUTH AFRICA |
| The Steam Pig |
| James McClure introduces Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi -- a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why? |
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