We talk with Michael Stanley (AKA Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip) about their latest Detective Kubu novel, ‘A Deadly Covenant‘. The second prequel telling of Kubu’s early career in the Botswana Criminal Investigations Department, we follow Detective Kubu to Shakawe, Botswana on a case investigating a mass grave of first nations Africans hoed up amidst preparations for a new water line through the Kalahari desert. His long-tenured friends and mentors are new acquaintances, and his later-wife is only a growing flirtation. The town’s history begs to be unearthed as modern murders point to needed justice for past misdeeds.

Thank you to Michael Stanley for copies of ‘A Deadly Covenant’.