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Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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A Carrion Death (Detective Kubu, #1)
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2008
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39 editions
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Death of the Mantis (Detective Kubu, #3)
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2011
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14 editions
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The Second Death Of Goodluck Tinubu (Detective Kubu, #2)
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2009
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31 editions
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Deadly Harvest (Detective Kubu, #4)
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2013
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8 editions
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A Death in the Family (Detective Kubu, #5)
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2015
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11 editions
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Dying to Live (Detective Kubu, #6)
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2017
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6 editions
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Facets of Death (Detective Kubu, #7)
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2020
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10 editions
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A Deadly Covenant (Detective Kubu, #8)
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Detective Kubu Investigates
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2013
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2 editions
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Dead of Night
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2018
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After her stunning gothic horror/mystery crossover I Remember You, Sigurdardottir follows with another book of the same type. There's a real murder mystery, but also a twisty ghost story. Two couples join a geologist for a trek through the winter snow ...more |
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| And So I Roar is the sequel to Abi Daré’s acclaimed debut novel The Girl with the Louding Voice, but it also reads well as a standalone. Adunni is a young girl with a past. She fled Ikati, her home village in Nigeria, after being accused of the murde ...more | |
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The Fox Wife is set in Manchuria and Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century. One of its attractions is that it brings to life the China of that era for western readers, who can follow the threads that lead to the dramatic changes ahead. The ...more |
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This is a collection of intriguing stories set in modern day Zimbabwe. The author looks at everyday occurrences (and unusual ones) with insight and a light touch of humor, which makes the stories delightful. The first story Potholes is an excellent ex ...more |
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The Queen of the Valley is set in 1925 in Colombia at the time of the violent Cali earthquake. The story opens at the Hacienda La Reina with a dinner to raise funds for the school that Martin Sabater, the owner of the Hacienda and its cacao plantatio ...more |
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| The Ghost of Sam Webster is a novel with a very broad scope. Historian and raconteur, Bruce Webster is the owner of the site of the battle of iSandlwana, one of the first battles between the British and the Zulus during the Anglo-Zulu Wars. His tours ...more | |
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| The Nigerwife is a remarkable book. While it has a mystery at its core, it is also an in depth look at upper-class Lagos culture both from within, and through the eyes of the poorer people who are basically their servants. The picture it paints of a ...more | |
“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.”
― Death Of The Mantis
― Death Of The Mantis
“Motho ke motho ka batho, meaning “I am because you are,” and was a social contract of earning respect by first giving it.”
― Facets of Death
― Facets of Death
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| Mystery/Thriller ...: Bouchercon reports | 55 | 164 | Nov 04, 2009 01:48PM | |
| Mystery/Thriller ...: Bouchercon in retrospect | 39 | 137 | Nov 05, 2010 01:53PM | |
| The Mystery, Crim...: I'm new! | 7 | 26 | Oct 29, 2011 05:07PM | |
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| Great African Reads: Botswana | 16 | 51 | Jul 26, 2012 09:52PM | |
| Mystery/Thriller ...: Bouchercon 2012, Day Three (Saturday) | 29 | 65 | Oct 18, 2012 03:17AM | |
| Mount TBR Reading...: Donna's 2012 list | 48 | 43 | Nov 18, 2012 01:10AM | |
| Around the World ...: Reading Plans for 2013 | 42 | 524 | Oct 11, 2013 12:38AM | |
| The Mystery, Crim...: help please in identifying this author/series | 9 | 70 | Nov 19, 2013 08:10PM | |
| The Mystery, Crim...: Exotic Mysteries | 12 | 67 | Apr 26, 2014 05:58PM |
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