NO ONE DIES YET

383pp., paperback, Reprint, London (2023) 2023

Black American friends Elton, Vincent, and Scott visit Ghana's sites from the transatlantic slave route and explore the country's underground queer scene while a killer commits a string of murders.

"Kobby Ben Ben’s debut, No One Dies Yet, is fascinating, funny, surreal, and provocative, its genre-warping murder tale fusing queer autofiction with geopolitics and mystery with erotica.” ELLE Magazine

"... what makes No One Dies Yet a thrilling read is its refusal to fit into a prescribed mould. This is a book that brims with possibilities, contradictions, jokes, puzzles, detours, ambiguities, secrets and metafictional tricks and twists. It is also a book built on other books, and it thrives on irony and moments of sly pastiche ... Ben Ben has marshalled his anxieties about the publishing world and western appetite for stories of colonialism and slavery to produce a hilarious, irreverent and coolly self-aware novel that confounds expectation at every turn." The Guardian

Kobby Ben Ben was born and bred in Ghana, where he runs the African Book Club and the Ghana Must Read website. No One Dies Yet is his first novel.