DYING TO LIVE, a Detective Kuku mystery

298pp., paperback, London, 2017.

A thriller set in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve featuring Detectives 'Kubu' Bengu and Samatha Khama and involving rhino-horn smugglers. gangsters and drug manufacturers.

Michael Stanley is the writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Michael Sears was born in Johannesburg, grew up in Cape Town and Nairobi, and teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand. Stanely Trollip was also born in Johannesburg and before retiring taught at universities in the USA. He divides his times between Knysna, South Africa, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.