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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).

The third Detective Kubu mystery, Death of the Mantis, has the ...more

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	A Carrion Death (Detective Kubu, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 2,210 ratings — published 2008 — 39 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) 3.91 avg rating — 1,579 ratings — published 2011 — 14 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 — 1,182 ratings — published 2009 — 31 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) 4.11 avg rating — 798 ratings — published 2013 — 8 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) 3.99 avg rating — 560 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) 4.02 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Facets of Death (Detective Kubu, #7) 4.13 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 2020 — 10 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) 4.16 avg rating — 203 ratings — 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
	Detective Kubu Investigates 3.95 avg rating — 202 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
	Dead of Night 4.08 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2018 — 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

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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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“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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