The Lynching Of Moses Orieyo: A Roman Noir Set In Kenya

In downtown Nairobi, Kenya, while trying to steal a car, a young man is lynched and stoned to death by a mob. However, not everything is as it appears in this manifestation of citizen justice. A beautiful woman consults detective Tim Tutts, arguing it was a conspiracy. The detective and his team uncover a convoluted intrigue, where superstition, lunacy, shady deals and lust intermingle. Several people involved in the lynching suffer violent deaths, and even Tutts must try to escape the violence that has been unleashed. This is a novel that describes the new urban Africa, no stranger to tribalism, romance and crime... The Lynching of Moses Orieyo (A roman noir set in Kenya) is the first of a series with Kikuyu private detective Tim Tutts.Bartolome Leal is a Chilean roman noir and crime fiction author. From 1993 to the present he has published 20 novels and 5 short story books in Bolivia, Chile and Spain, in Spanish, some of which have been translated into English, French and German. His latest books are: Historias del Mu eco Vud (Stories of a Voodoo Doll) (short stories set in Haiti, 2013), El Arte de la Par bola (The Art of the Parable) (short-short stories, 2014), ngeles en el Kosovo (Angels in Kosovo) (thriller set in the Balkans, 2014), El Hombre Nuevo (The New Socialist Man) (political novel about Chile, 2015), Blanca de Negro (White Woman/Black Man) (roman noir set in Kenya, 2015), El Martirio del Reverendo (The Reverend's Martyrdom) (roman noir set in Kenya, 2016), Memorias de un asesino en serie (Memoirs of a Serial Killer) (Latin-American roman noir, 2018).