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, and a sinister group is as interested in finding the perpetrator as Kubu is in The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu. "
