Facets of Death, Michael Stanley
Facets of Death, Michael Stanley
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Facets of Death

Author: Michael Stanley

Narrator: Ben Onwukwe

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2021

Synopsis

Mining diamonds is a lucrative business, but it soon proves itself deadly. Shortly after Kubu joins the CID, the richest diamond mine in the world is robbed of 100,000 carats of diamonds in transit. The robbery is well-executed and brutal. Police immediately suspect an inside job, but there is no evidence of who it could be. When the robbers are killed execution-style in South Africa and the diamonds are still missing, the game changes, and suspicion focuses on a witch doctor and his son. Does Kubu have the skill and the integrity to engineer an international trap and catch those responsible, or will the biggest risk of his life end in disaster?

About Michael Stanley

Michael Stanley is the writing team of Johannesburg natives Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Sears lives in Johannesburg and teaches part-time at the University of Witwatersrand. Trollip was on the faculty at the universities of Illinois, Minnesota, and North Dakota, and at Capella University. A full-time writer, he divides his time between South Africa and Minneapolis, Minnesota. The pair has had many adventures together, including tracking lions at night, fighting bush fires on the Savuti plains in northern Botswana, surviving a charging elephant, and losing their navigation maps while flying over the Kalahari.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Skip on March 06, 2023

A prequel to an established series of mysteries, set in Botswana, and featuring David ‘Kubu’ Bengu, fresh out of university, and a brand-new CID police detective. The first case he is assigned is about suitcases, which have disappeared on flights from Gaborone to London and Paris. The tags were scan......more

Goodreads review by Lori on January 02, 2020

In this prequel to Kubu Bengu series, a heist at the world's largest diamond mine sends the straight-out-of-the-university Bengu and CID colleagues into investigation mode, especially when the robbers are killed but the diamonds remain missing. Suspicion falls to a local witch doctor, but the young......more

Goodreads review by Annarella on May 14, 2024

It's the first book I read in this series and won't surely be the last as I found it gripping and entertaining. I loved the vivid descriptions of Africa, the well thought cast of characters, and the well crafted plot. The mystery is solid and it kept me guessing till the end. I look forward to reading......more

Goodreads review by Bookreporter.com on January 14, 2020

It is so nice to see David Bengu back in action. Bengu, who is better known as “Kubu” in the fictitious world he inhabits, is a police detective in the Botswana CID. This mystery series has been one of my favorites since its inception, in large part due to its principal character. Kubu is quietly lo......more

Goodreads review by Karen on May 10, 2021

Prequels, particularly thrillers are a tricky proposition; on the one hand it's intriguing to potentially discover more about what shaped an established character but on the other, the reader already knows that whatever happens here, the protagonist will live and depending on the series, go on to ha......more

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