186pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2021
Kamil Naicker "takes on the trope of the investigator who returns to the post colony on a quest for knowledge. In tandem with solving the caee, they must also grapple with the complexities of their own origins." from the back cover.
Includes chapters on Gillian Slovo's Red Dust and Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones.
Kamil Naicker is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of the Western Cape. Return to the Scene of the Crime is her first book.