When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari
Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accide
nt. But all is not as it
seems. An autopsy reveals that, although he’s clearly very old, his
internal organs are puzzlingly young. What’s more, an old bullet is
lodged in one of his muscles ... but where is the entry wound?
When the body is stolen from the
morgue and a local witch doctor is
reported missing, Detective ‘Kubu’ Bengu gets involved. But did the
witch doctor take the body to use as part of a ritual? Or was it the
American anthropologist who’d befriended the old Bushman?
As Kubu and his brilliant
young colleague, Detective Samantha Khama,
follow the twisting trail through a confusion of rhino
-
horn smugglers,
foreign gangsters and drugs manufacturers, the wider and more
dangerous the case seems to grow.
A fresh, new slice of ‘Sunshine Noir’,
Dying
to Live
is a classic tale of
greed, corruption and ruthless thuggery, set in one of the world’s most
beautiful landscapes, and featuring one of crime fiction’s most
endearing and humane heroes