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Egypt and the NorthMysteries set in Egypt and the NorthSouth AfricaElsewhere in AfricaMysteries set Elsewhere in Africa

Africa has an interesting history and richcultural traditions. Though relatively fewernovelists have chosen to write about itshistory, those that have include Nobelprizewinner Naguib Mahfouz and bestsellingauthors James A. Michener, M.M. Kaye andWilbur Smith, as well as lesser knownauthors who deserve to be more widely read.

Egypt is an ancient culture (see AncientHistory for novels set in the time of thepharaohs), and the entire southernMediterranean coast has a history thatstretches back to the Roman Empire. Theinflux of Dutch into South Africa during theseventeenth century ushered in centuries ofconflict between natives and white settlers,known as Afrikaners. Other nations, includingGermany and England, colonized other partsof the continent, leading to similar conflicts as well as conflicts between theEnglish and Germans during World Wars I and II.

Novels of warfare written primarily from the perspective of Europeansoldiers are listed on the various pages for novels with European settings.

Egypt and the North

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Yahya Taher Abdullah, The Collar and the Bracelet, about an Egyptianfamily during World War II.

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1959), about a leader in an Ibo villagein Nigeria as the first European missionaries are about to arrive in the1890s; #1 in the African trilogy. Review

Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease (1960), about an Ibo man (thegrandson of the main character in Things Fall Apart) who leaves his villageto take a job in the colonial service; #2 in the African trilogy.

Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God (1964), about the chief priest of a godworshipped by six Ibo villages in Nigeria during the 1920s as Britishcolonists convert Africans to Christianity; #3 in the African trilogy.

Gamal al­Ghitani, Zayni Barakat, about a man's rise to power in sixteenthcentury Cairo.

Tahar ben Jelloun, The Sand Child (1985), about a Moroccan man in theearly twentieth century who raises his eighth daughter as a boy so that shewill be able to inherit his estate.

Tahar ben Jelloun, The Sacred Night (1987), about a Moroccan womanraised as a boy and her search for her identity as a woman; sequel to TheSand Child.

Monica Burns, Kismet (2010), historical romance set in nineteenth­centuryMorocco about a Moroccan chieftain and a woman raised in a brothel, whereshe learned the arts of seduction.

Anne Marie Drosso, In Their Father's Country (2009), about two sisters ofSyrian descent growing up amid the anti­British unrest in Cairo in the 1920s.

María Dueñas, The Time In Between (2009 in the original Spanish; firstEnglish edition 2011), about a Spanish woman who becomes a couturier forthe wives of Nazi officers in Algiers after her lover deserts her.

Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood (2014), an adventure story about amodern woman who travels to Africa and discovers an inscription about thefirst Amazon queen, and the ancient Amazon queen's attempts to rescue herpeople from capture by pirates.

Tom Gamble, Amazir (2010), about a young Englishman and an Americanoil explorer who travel through Morocco in the 1930s, a time of Berberopposition to French rule.

Jane Johnson, The Sultan's Wife (2012), about a scribe framed formurder and a captive Englishwoman in the palace of a Moroccan sultan.

Yasmina Khadra, What the Day Owes the Night (2010), about a youngman in French Colonial Algeria who must choose between his new life in theEuropean district or his old life in his native culture when he falls in lovewith a beautiful young woman.

Jean­Marie Le Clézio, Desert (1980), alternating stories about a youngTuareg man in the early twentieth century and a modern­day girl of Tuareg

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descent who flees to France to avoid an unwanted marriage; the author wasawarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Jean­Marie Le Clézio, Onitsha (1997), about a boy who migrates to Nigeriawith his Italian mother to join his British father in 1948; the author wasawarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus (1986), about a sixteenth century Moroccangeographer and his travels through the Mediterranean world.

Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, about a Muslim family in Cairo during theearly twentieth century; #1 in the Cairo Trilogy.

Naguib Mahfouz, Palace of Desire, about a Cairo family in the 1920s; #2in the Cairo Trilogy.

Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street, about a Cairo family during the emergenceof modern Egypt; #3 in the Cairo Trilogy.

Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo Modern, about the Egyptian city of Cairo during the1930s.

Naguib Mahfouz, The Beginning and the End, about Cairo during WorldWar II.

Naguib Mahfouz, The Harafish, about many generations of an Egyptianfamily as they rise to wealth and power and become subject to itstemptations.

Naguib Mahfouz, Morning and Evening Talk, a literary novel about fivegenerations of three Cairo families from the time of Napoleon to the 1980s,in the form of character sketches presented in alphabetical order.

Brian Moore, The Magician's Wife, about the wife of a nineteenth centurystage magician sent to Algeria by Napoleon III to demonstrate French powerto the Bedouins.

Will Pflaum, Juba: The Search for the Sons of the Martyrs (2012), abouta slave sent to a Christian community in Egypt in 207 A.D. to find the sonsof two martyred Christian women; self­published.

Sara Sheridan, Secret of the Sands (2011), historical romance about abeautiful Abyssinian slave girl and the British officer who buys her in amarket before setting off to rescue fellow officers who have gone missing.

Wilbur Smith, Cry Wolf, about a Texas engineer and a British gun­runnerwho make a deal with an Ethiopian prince as Italian armies threaten Ethiopiaduring World War II.

Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love, about a modern American journalist whotravels to Egypt to learn the story of her ancestors: an English widow and anEgyptian who fell in love in 1901.

Bahaa Taher, Sunset Oasis (2007), about an Egyptian policeman sent bythe British government of Egypt to take charge of the remote and violentSiwa Oasis at the end of the 19th century. Review by Khaled Hroub atBanipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature

Sheniqua Waters, Slave Girl (ebook format currently available,forthcoming in print in 2009), historical romance about a beautiful youngEgyptian woman kidnapped and sold into slavery in Constantinople in 1450

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A.D. and from there into a Turkish harem.

Youssef Ziedan, Azazeel (2008 in the original Egyptian; English translation2012; also titled Azazel), about a twelfth­century monk who, at Satan'surging, begins writing his memoirs after Bishop Nestorius isexcommunicated and burned for heresy; 2009 winner of the InternationalPrize for Arabic Fiction.

Mysteries: Egypt and the North

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Michael Pearce, The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet (1988),about a British official in turn­of­the­century Egypt who must calm tensionswhen a political assassination attempt is made shortly before a religiousfestival; #1 in the Mamur Zapt series.

Michael Pearce, The Mamur Zapt and the Night of the Dog (1989), abouta British official in turn­of­the­century Egypt who must investigate after adead dog in a tomb heralds a crime wave; #2 in the Mamur Zapt series.

Michael Pearce, The Donkey­Vous (1990), about a British official in turn­of­the­century Egypt who must investigate the case of a kidnapped tourist,finding an unexpected answer among Cairo's donkey­boys; #3 in the MamurZapt series.

Michael Pearce, The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind (1991), about aBritish official in turn­of­the­century Egypt who must investigate anoutbreak of violence in Cairo's bazaars; #4 in the Mamur Zapt series.

Michael Pearce, The Girl in the Nile (1992), about a British official in turn­of­the­century Egypt who must investigate the case of a missing body; #5 inthe Mamur Zapt series.

Michael Pearce, The Spoils of Egypt (1992), about a British official in turn­of­the­century Egypt who must keep an eye on a U.S. presidentialcandidate's niece after she nearly lands in the path of a Cairo tram; #6 inthe Mamur Zapt series.

Michael Pearce, The Camel of Destruction (1993), about a British officialin turn­of­the­century Egypt who must investigate a case of apparent suicideby a Ministry of Agriculture clerk; #7 in the Mamur Zapt series.

Michael Pearce, The Snake­Catcher's Daughter (1994), about a Britishofficial in turn­of­the­century Egypt who becomes a target of ugly rumors;#8 in the Mamur Zapt series.

Michael Pearce, The Mingrelian Conspiracy (1995), about a British officialin turn­of­the­century Egypt who must investigate a threat to Cairo's caféculture by local gangs – or possibly something more sinister; #9 in theMamur Zapt series.

Michael Pearce, The Fig­Tree Murder (1996), about a British official inturn­of­the­century Egypt who must investigate why a body was left on theline of the New Electric Railway connecting Old Cairo with its new suburbs;#10 in the Mamur Zapt series.

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Michael Pearce, The Last Cut (1998), about a British official in turn­of­the­century Egypt whomust investigate the death of a young woman whose bodyappeared at the site of a dam before the ceremonial "last cut," which willallow water to flow into Cairo; #11 in the Mamur Zapt series.

Michael Pearce, Death of an Effendi (1999), about a British official inturn­of­the­century Egypt who must investigate the shooting death of animportant foreigner at a meeting of financiers; #12 in the Mamur Zaptseries.

Michael Pearce, A Cold Touch of Ice (2000), about a British official inEgypt before the First World War who must investigate a murder that maybe related to ethnic tensions; #13 in the Mamur Zapt series.

Michael Pearce, The Face in the Cemetery (2001), about a British officialin 1914 Egypt who must take on the perilous and slippery task of roundingup enemy aliens as a war with Germany begins; #14 in the Mamur Zaptseries.

Michael Pearce, The Point in the Market (2005), about a British official inEgypt during World War I who must investigate a uproar that began in thecamel market, while coping with the political and social difficulties resultingfrom his recent marriage to a pasha's daughter; #15 in the Mamur Zaptseries.

Michael Pearce, The Mark of the Pasha (2008), about a British official inturn­of­the­century Egypt who must protect local and foreign officials fromthe threat of bombs during a procession at the close of World War I; #16 inthe Mamur Zapt series.

South Africa and the Afrikaners

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Sidney Allinson, Kruger's Gold (2001), about a Canadian officer in theBritish Army who leads a patrol into the South African velt in 1902 duringthe Second Anglo­Boer War to recover a cache of looted gold; self­published.

Kenneth Bonert, The Lion Seeker (2013), about a young man inJohannesburg, the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, struggling to makemoney for his impoverished family as World War II approaches.

André Brink, An Instant in the Wind (1976), about a runaway slave inBoer South Africa in 1749 and the white woman, the sole survivor of anexpedition into the interior, whom he agrees to guide through the wildernessof the velt back to her home.

André Brink, Philida (2013), about a slave woman in Capetown, SouthAfrica, in 1832.

Hansen Brooks, The Chess Garden, about a white Ohio doctor working ina British concentration camp during the Boer War in 1900 who writes lettersback to his wife describing a fantasy world.

Stuart Cloete, Turning Wheels (1937), a novel about the nineteenth

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century northward migration, known as the Great Trek, of South AfricanAfrikaners angered by the British decision to outlaw slavery; banned inSouth Africa at the time of its original publication

Stuart Cloete, Rags of Glory (1963), about both sides of the Boer War inSouth Africa between the British and the Afrikaners (or Boers) of Dutchdescent.

Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, a coming­of­age novel about a boysent to a school during the years before World War II where he is the onlyEnglish speaker among the mostly Afrikaner students.

Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, about a young woman of mixed race raped by anAfrikaner policeman and sent to a brothel; sequel to The Power of One.

Philip Danze, Conjuring Maud, about a British military student who falls inlove with a much older British woman explorer at the time of the nineteenthcentury Zulu War.

Brian Duncan, The Settler (2012), about a young Englishman and hisAmerican friend who settle in South Africa in the late nineteenth century andbecome involved in the Boer War; self­published.

Giles Foden, Ladysmith (2001), a love story about a woman in the English­held South African town of Ladysmith when it was besieged by Boers in 1899during the Boer War.

Graham Fysh, Moorosi (2012), about King Moorosi of the Baphuthi peopleand his war against the Cape Colony in nineteenth­century South Africa;self­published.

Ann Harries, Manly Pursuits (1999), about a British ornithologist whocontracts to bring 200 British songbirds to Capetown at the end of thenineteenth century.

Jan Hurst­Nicholson, The Breadwinners (2010), a family saga beginningin the 1920s about a white settler in Durban, South Africa, who must marrythe young woman pregnant with his child, and their families over the nextsixty years; self­published.

Pamela Jooste, Frieda and Min (2000), a coming­of­age story about aJewish girl in Johannesburg who in the summer of 1964 becomes friendswith a white girl raised in the bush.

Sheila Kohler, The House On R Street, about a troubled and potentiallyviolent fourteen­year­old girl in 1920s South Africa.

Sheila Kohler, Love Child (2011), about a Christian girl from Johannesburgwho elopes with a Jewish man in 1925 but is forced to return home, whereshe bears his child.

Lauren Liebenberg, The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club (2011), abouttwo twelve­year­old mine­workers in Johannesburg in 1958 who must relyon their friendship when the sister of one of them disappears and her fatheris suspected of killing her.

Henning Mankell, Daniel (2010), about an African boy orphaned when hisparents are murdered, and the Swedish scientist who finds him in CapeTown in the 1870s and brings him back to Sweden where he tries to teachthe boy to follow European customs.

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Dalene Matthee, Fiela's Child, about an orphaned white boy raised by ablack woman from ages three until nine and then by a family of illiteratewhite woodcutters in nineteenth century Africa.

Dalene Matthee, Circles in a Forest, about an Afrikaner woodcutter's sonwho wishes to protect the forest elephants in his area when it is disruptedby gold hunters; #1 in the Forest trilogy.

Dalene Matthee, The Mulberry Forest, about a ninteenth century Afrikanerwho gains the rights to his land by agreeing to help a group of nearbyItalians; #2 in the Forest trilogy.

Dalene Matthee, Dreamforest, about a beautiful woodcutter's daughterwho marries a village man to escape the harsh life of the forest, but returnsbecause of her yearning for a life close to nature; #3 in the Forest trilogy.

Jennifer McVeigh, The Fever Tree (2013), about a London woman whoemigrates to South Africa after her father's death in 1880.

James A. Michener, The Covenant, about the history of South Africa fromprehistoric times through the 1970s, from the perspective of various ethnicgroups but concentrating especially on the white Afrikaners.

Barbara Mutch, The Housemaid's Daughter (2013), about a lonelywoman in a small town in the Karoo desert, who develops a bond with herhousemaid's daughter during the years of apartheid.

Sol T. Plaatje, Mhudi (1913), about a man and woman who survive aMatabele attack in the 1830s, fall in love, and live in an unconventionalmarriage.

Dan Sleigh, Islands, about the seventeenth century settlement of the Capeof Good Hope, from the perspective of both the native people and the Dutchsettlers.

Wilbur Smith, When the Lion Feeds (1964), about white cattle farmers innineteenth century South Africa during the Zulu Wars and the JohannesburgGold Rush; #1 in the first Courtney series.

Wilbur Smith, The Sound of Thunder (1966; also titled The Roar ofThunder), about a white South African who fights for the British during theAngo­Boer War; #2 in the first Courtney series.

Wilbur Smith, A Sparrow Falls (1977), about a white South African whofights in World War I and returns to gain political power; #3 in first theCourtney series.

Wilbur Smith, The Burning Shore, about an aristocratic youngFrenchwoman who travels to South Africa after World War I; #1 in thesecond Courtney series.

Wilbur Smith, Power of the Sword, about two white half­brothers whobattle each other for power in South Africa as World War II begins; #2 inthe second Courtney series (which continues into modern times with #6,Rage, and its sequels).

Wilbur Smith, Birds of Prey (1997), about the first members of the fictionalCourtney family to come to Africa, in 1667 with a letter from King Charles IIallowing them to pursue and capture enemy ships beyond British waters; #1in the third Courtney series.

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Wilbur Smith, Monsoon (1999), about the fictional Courtney family ineighteenth century England, East Africa and Arabia; #2 in the third Courtneyseries.

Wilbur Smith, The Blue Horizon (2003), about the generation of thefictional Courtney family which traveled the "Robber's Road" and staked aclaim in Southern Africa; #3 in the third Courtney series.

Wilbur Smith, The Triumph of the Sun (2005), about a British tradertrapped in Khartoum during the bloody 1884 rebellion against the EgyptianKhedive; #4 in the third Courtney series.

Wilbur Smith, Assegai (2009), about a professional big game hunter in1913 who falls in love with the mistress of one of his clients, a Germanindustrialist from whom his uncle, a British military officer, has asked himto get information; #5 in the third Courtney series.

Elsewhere in Africa

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Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons (1973), about the colonizationof Africa for the past thousand years, beginning with Arabs.

Ayi Kwei Armah, The Healers (2000), about a young man offered theposition of king of the Ashanti in Ghana in the 1890s, with the understandingthat he will not oppose the white colonists, and makes enemies when herefuses.

Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother (2010), about a boy in Madagascarwho makes friends with a European Jew in a prison camp and helps himescape during World War II.

Biyi Bandele, The King's Rifle (2009), a coming­of­age story about a youngWest African soldier fighting in World War II.

William Boyd, An Ice Cream War, about the continuation of World War I inBritish East Africa after the Armistice had already been declared.

William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, about a British official in a fictionalAfrican country during the decline of colonialism.

Bartle Bull, The White Rhino Hotel, an adventure story about aprofessional hunter in colonial Kenya after the end of World War I; #1 in theAnton Rider trilogy.

Bartle Bull, A Café on the Nile, an adventure story about a professionalhunter in colonial Kenya as Mussolini is attacking Abyssinia; #2 in the AntonRider trilogy.

Bartle Bull, The Devil's Oasis, an adventure story about a professionalhunter in colonial Kenya during World War II; #3 in the Anton Rider trilogy.

Frank Coates, The Last Maasai Warrior (2008), about a leader of theMaasai and a British administrator in East Africa in 1911, after the Britishbreak the promise made seven years earlier to allow the Maasai to retaincontrol over their traditional lands.

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Paul D. Cohn, Sao Tome: Journey to the Abyss—Portugal's StolenChildren, about two fifteenth century Jewish children kidnapped, along withothers, from their synagogue in Portugal and sent to an island off Africa towork as slaves on sugar plantations.

Maryse Condé, Segu, about a family in the eighteenth century kingdom ofSegu (near today's Mali) as the shift from paganism to Islam begins.

Maryse Condé, The Children of Segu, about a family in the eighteenthcentury kingdom of Segu (near today's Mali) as the shift from paganism toIslam begins; sequel to Segu.

Maryse Condé, The Last of the African Kings, about the descendants of aking of Dahomey who was exiled to the Caribbean island of Martinique.

Emmanuel Dongala, The Fire of Origins (original edition in French 1987,first English edition 2001), a mystical novel about a man born in Africabefore European colonization who lives through the history of Africa into thepresent day. Review

Robert Edric, The Book of the Heathen, a literary novel about anEnglishman in the nineteenth century Belgian Congo on trial for the murderof a native child.

C.S. Forester, The African Queen, about a prim missionary spinster and anuncouth riverboat skipper thrown together in Colonial Africa during WorldWar II.

Henry Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, an adventure story about anineteenth century white explorer in who discovers a previously unexploredvalley; technically not historical since the novel was set in the author's owntime.

Bessie Head, A Bewitched Crossroad (1984), about the chief of a smallclan who struggles to protect his people during the crises of the nineteenthcentury in what is now Botswana.

Manu Herbstein, Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001), abouta young African woman forced into slavery in Ghana in the late eighteenthcentury and her travels through Africa to her ultimate fate on a Brazil sugarplantation.

M.M. Kaye, Trade Wind, about an abolitionist Boston woman and the slavetrader who rescues her in a storm off Zanzibar.

Siaka Kroma, Gomna's Children (2010), about the chief of a small town inearly colonial Sierra Leone who sends his children for formal schooling,changing his family's lives forever; self­published.

Jean­Marie Le Clézio, The Prospector (1993), about a young Frenchmansearching for treasure on Rodrigues, an island off the African coast, in theyears before World War I; the author was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize forLiterature.

Karen Mercury, Hinterlands, historical romance set in the Kingdom ofBenin in 1897, about a New York anthropologist who supports Britishcolonization efforts and a trader who strongly opposes them.

D.T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, a retelling of an oral traditionpassed down from the thirteenth century about the man who united Mali intoa single kingdom.

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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Dust (2014), about a family in Kenya from theanti­colonial Mau Mau uprisings of the 1950s through the present. Review atPublishers Weekly

Tony Park, African Dawn (2011), about three families in SouthernRhodesia in 1959 who are already in conflict over the protection of rhinoswhen a young woman from one family is kidnapped by terrorists.

Rafael Scott, Beyond Mali, about a man who inherits the rule of fourteenthcentury Mali when his father dies and, in the midst of war, reveals hisdream of exploring the “Great Sea of Darkness” west of the Africancontinent; based on a true story.

Wilbur Smith, Shout at the Devil, about ivory poaching in German­occupied East Africa as tensions build in the years leading up to the FirstWorld War.

Wilbur Smith, The Sunbird, about an archaeological dig that uncovers theremains of a 2000­year­old city in Botswana as the dig is threatened bymodern terrorism that echoes the violence of the ancient city's destruction.

Wilbur Smith, A Falcon Flies (titled Flight of the Falcon in the U.S.), aboutthe son and daughter of a missionary who return to Africa in 1860 and findthemselves in conflict over the slave trade; #1 in the Ballantyne series.

Wilbur Smith, Men of Men, about a Briton during Queen Victoria's reignwho tries to make his fortune in diamond mining as the colonial state ofRhodesia is born; #2 in the Ballantyne series.

Wilbur Smith, The Angels Weep, about an adventurer during the last yearsof Queen Victoria who pushes into heart of the continent, sowing seeds offuture violence; #3 in the Ballantyne series (the series continues intomodern times with #4, The Leopard Hunts in Darkness, and #5, TheTriumph of the Sun).

Uwe Timm, Morenga, about a revolt against German colonizers in thesouthwest during the first decade of the twentieth century.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Weep Not, Child (1964; originally published under thename James Ngugi), about a Kenyan boy who is the first in his family to goto school and must decide whether to give it up when the Mau Mau rebellionbegins in 1952.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, The River Between (1965; originally published underthe name James Ngugi), about a young village leader in Kenya during theMau Mau rebellion.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat (1967; originally published underthe pen name James Ngugi), about five friends the the different choices theymake during the Kenyan struggle for independence in 1952­1959.

Barbara Wood, Green City in the Sun, about a British brother and sisterwho come to Kenya in 1917 to find themselves in conflict with a nativemedicine woman, and their descendants.

Barbara Wood, The Blessing Stone, about a prehistoric girl who finds amysterious blue crystal in a meteorite, and her descendants as they carrythe stone around the world.

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Mysteries set Elsewhere in Africa

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Annamaria Alfieri, Strange Gods (2014), about an African­born whitewoman and a British policeman in 1911 British East Africa (now Kenya)trying to find out who murdered her uncle with a native spear. Review

Suzanne Arruda, Mark of the Lion (2006), about an adventurous womanwho goes to Africa after driving an ambulance during the First World War;#1 in the Jade del Cameron mystery series.

Suzanne Arruda, Stalking Ivory (2007), a woman photographer joinsforces with an attractive American pilot after they discover the mutilatedbodies of four elephants and a man; #2 in the Jade del Cameron mysteryseries.

Suzanne Arruda, The Serpent's Daughter (2008), a woman adventurermust rescue her missing mother and defend herself from a charge ofmurder when she goes on a holiday trip to Tangiers; #3 in the Jade delCameron mystery series.

Suzanne Arruda, The Leopard's Prey (2009), a woman adventurer mustdefend her beau from a murder charge after a dead body is found on acoffee plantation in British East Africa; #4 in the Jade del Cameron mysteryseries.

Suzanne Arruda, Treasure of the Golden Cheetah (2009), on safari toMount Kilimanjaro, a woman photographer must find a killer she suspects isbehind a series of deadly disasters; #5 in the Jade del Cameron mysteryseries.

Suzanne Arruda, The Crocodile's Last Embrace (2010), a womanphotographer who, after returning to Kenya from Europe, begins receivingmysterious messages from a man who died in her arms years ago; #6 inthe Jade del Cameron mystery series.

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