This book has been published in print by Pentagon Publishing. The ebooks for this series can be found here. The books in the series are fast-paced, exciting novellas, featureing the female detective Kate Gomolemo. The length and pace make them very attractive for the ebook format. The first book in the series, The Fatal Payout, is read in all of Botswana's junior secondary schools and has sold approximately 30,000 copies to date.
Below is the blurb:
Something is not right in Mogobane. With a note scribbled in a child’s hand, Detective Kate Gomolemo is drawn into the dangerous, brutal and horrific world of muti killing.
Four children and their grandmother are burnt to death in their mud hut at the lands. The local police constable writes it off as an accidental fire, but within a few hours of her being in the village Kate realises that can’t be right. She soon realises that the people in Mogobane are not always who they appear to be- from the local business man, to the dark traditional doctor, she even begins to suspect the police constable.
Despite the danger in the air, Kate sets out to find the killers. She will not rest until the murderers of the five innocent victims are put behind bars, but will she have to pay the ultimate price for her stubborn search for justice.
Genre: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / GeneralThe five left behind watched as the others made their way to the village and they had no indication that it would be the last time that they’d see any of them again. After the others disappeared in the distance, the old woman gathered up the four children who had remained behind with her and delegated tasks for their nightly duties. The older girl and smallest boy would go and fetch wood in the bush. The middle boys would fetch water, while the old lady would pound the fresh maize, collected from a nearby field earlier in the day, in the well-worn kika.
The sun lowered in the western sky and the small group, now back from their chores, sat at the fire eating their porridge. The girl was dispirited because she had not been allowed to go to the village for the event at the kgotla. All her friends from school would be there. She hadn’t seen them since the school holiday had begun nearly three weeks ago and she’d been planning all week about what she would wear and what she must remember to tell them. She was angry when her mother told her that she should remain behind with her grandmother and take care of her brothers, but not angry enough to speak out. She knew her mother very well and speaking out against her decisions was not wise. So the girl remained silent as she watched them head towards the village.
They sat quietly around the fire gazing into the glowing embers. The small boy was herding a dung beetle towards the flames with a long stick. The old woman shifted on the reed mat, responding to the pain in her hip that had caused all of them to remain behind in the first place. The girl gathered up their empty bowls and washed them at the back of the lolwapa. She came around to the fire and collected the boys to get them ready to sleep.
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Italian
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Translation in progress.
Translated by Matteo Barbagallo
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Portuguese
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Translation in progress.
Translated by andre diogo weber
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Spanish
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Translation in progress.
Translated by Alejandro del Barrio Márquez
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