Extract from A Deadly Covenant by Michael Stanley

Sadly for me my reading mojo is still very much AWOL so I wasn't in a position to review A Deadly Covenant, the latest in the Detective Kubu series from Michael Stanley. However, I still wanted to offer my support to the authors as I've previously read and enjoyed a few of the previous books in the series, and now that I think of it I still have one to read in my TBR pile, so I have a short extract for you to enjoy but first a little about the book.

When a human skeleton is discovered at the site of a controversial new dam in remote northern Botswana, rookie Detective Kubu is drawn into a terrifying local feud, and discovers a deadly covenant that could change everything…

While building a pipeline near the Okavango Delta, a contractor unearths the remains of a long-dead Bushman. Rookie Detective David ‘Kubu’ Bengu of Botswana CID and Scottish pathologist, Ian MacGregor, are sent to investigate, and MacGregor discovers the skeletons of eight more men.

Shortly after the gruesome discoveries, the elder of a nearby village is murdered in his home. The local police are convinced it was a robbery, but Kubu isn’t so sure … and neither is the strange woman who claims that an angry river spirit caused the elder’s death.

As accusations of corruption are levelled and international outrage builds over the massacre of the Bushman families, Kubu and his colleagues uncover a deadly covenant, and begin to fear that their own lives may be in mortal danger…  

Books Read: Dying to Live by Michael Stanley

When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. 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. 

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Giveaway: Win a copy of Dying to Live by Michael Stanley & Reconciliation for the Dead by Paul E. Hardisty

Today I have been following some of the book fun from the Theakstons Crime festival in Harrogate online to make up for the fact that I had to cancel going this year... one day I will actually make it there! If you're on Facebook check out the hilarious Book Blast Author Challenges that Angela Clarke has been doing live today and will be back tomorrow with more fab authors, or keep an eye out on Twitter as plenty of mentions of what's going on and even a few live videos to watch.

To make up for not going I've decided to run daily Crime/Thriller giveaways over the next couple of days.  So this evening's giveaway is for a couple of books I've received from the lovely Karen at Orenda Books as I also have eBooks of them.

Dying to Live by Michael Stanley (which I'll be reviewing soon as part of the blog tour)

When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. 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?