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Chargement... Death of the Mantispar Michael Stanley
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Enjoyable addition to the series. Characters continue to develop, plot is interesting with a little bit of history and culture for local color ( ) The third book in a series about a Botswanan detective named David Bengu, nicknamed Kubu (Hippo) because of his large body and easy going nature. He is called by an old high school chum to help defend three Bushmen arrested for the murder of a game park warden, and once again becomes embroiled in a series of seemingly unrelated deaths, which are anything but. Left to die in the desert, Kubu survives and helps put together the various clues to find the killer and help bring him to justice for his crimes in over-aggressively defending a tribesmen way of life. This was a relatively quick, light, entertaining read. I enjoy the African setting of these as I do Alexander McCall Smith's tales, perhaps because it is just foreign enough to seem believable to me. This one throws in some politics, with the plot surrounding the treatment of the Bushmen by contemporary, ruling Botswanan culture. Also, I was amused to catch a cocky nod to Smith's stories, just enough to show Stanley's obvious respect for them. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"In the southern Kalahari area of Botswana-an arid landscape of legends that speak of lost cities, hidden wealth, and ancient gods-a fractious ranger named Monzo is found dying from a severe head wound in a dry ravine. Three Bushmen surround the doomed man, but are they his killers or there to help? Detective David Kubu Bengu is on the case, an investigation that his old school friend Khumanego claims is motivated by racist antagonism on the part of the local police. But when a second bizarre murder, and then a third, seem to point also to the nomadic tribe, the intrepid Kubu must journey into the depths of the Kalahari to uncover the truth. What he discovers there will test all his powers of detection ... and his ability to remain alive"-- Cover verso. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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