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BITS OF MY LIFE by Ephantus Mwenda
He had a simple plan: leave the village, make his fortune in Nairobi, and return to marry Connie, the love of his life.
In the sprawling, unforgiving streets of Nairobi, honest work is a slow path to nowhere. When a charismatic and dangerous gangster named Jim offers him a shortcut, Bob is seduced by the promise of fast money and the power it brings. He becomes the ghost in the machine—the bank's trusted, innocent-faced messenger boy by day, the inside man for a ruthless robbery crew by night.
The deeper he sinks into the city's criminal underworld, the further he drifts from the man Connie believes him to be.
Just as he's about to lose himself completely, a ghost from home arrives with earth-shattering news: Bob is a father. Now, he has a new reason to escape, a real future to fight for. He plans one last, massive heist—the score that will set him free and send him home.
But in a world where the only rule is every man for himself, can you rob your way to redemption? Or is the price of a future with her the cost of his soul?
Spruce Avenue by Mutendei Writes
In Spruce Avenue, crime crosses generations, connected by seemingly random events that rupture the stability of a town’s history and future simultaneously. Sergeant Drake, as a law officer and troubled family man, must act to ensure peace and order, while in direct conflict with the present and sins of his past.
Sins that have spawned a brand new generation of troublemakers fostering an unexpected rise in local crime, manifested by the actions of a dangerous trio that he has both unknown and unresolved connections to.
As he acts on the new infestation of criminality, a darkness in the sheen of town’s society, a decades old lie, created by hate and many juvenile mistakes at the centre of a tragic societal and familial upheaval, threatens to unravel everything he has worked for and plunge Spruce Avenue back into the trauma of its almost forgotten, long ago dark days where crime ran rampant.
Before Our Eyes
A young woman’s body is found, half dressed, six stab wounds. Her killer’s mission is as
ideological as it is brutal, and his plan hinges on a little bird singing his message to the masses.
Malkia Kadzo is not afraid of using her voice to spark national conversation. It is why she got
into radio. Suddenly, her platform becomes the stage for a battle she never chose.
Detective Zala Maathai is called in to untangle the case. The deeper she digs, the clearer it
becomes that this is no ordinary killing. Every clue is designed to provoke a nation already
divided over power, gender and morality.
As Zala races against time to stop a man who believes murder is a path to redemption, Malkia
must confront the weight of being both a target and a voice, and a question hangs over the
country: What does a society owes its women.
The President’s Man. Book one. ...
What is known about Hassan Al Rashid, also known as El Diablo, is that he is untouchable. A drug dealer, gunrunner and partner of the Somalia Alshabaab, he has powerful protectors deep inside government.
But it is when a frustrated president sends ace detective Patrick after him and he is captured that it begins to become clear he is not just a crime lord. Part of something called The Partnership, El Diablo could be aiding the plans of a deeply secret and treasonous conspiracy built around the frustrations of the loss of the Shifta War back in the sixties.
And even as the president struggles to come to terms with the deep rot now uncovered in the national security institutions, The Partnership pursues El Diablo in custody, determined to either rescue or kill him to keep him silent.
Stampede is the first of a proposed trilogy called
The President’s Man.
Dead Reckoning
The first criminal investigation textbook written by an African practitioner, for the African investigator.
What happens when the modern police system fails to deliver justice, and communities turn to methods that have worked for centuries?
In Dead Reckoning I, retired senior intelligence and investigation officer J. Chelal draws on over thirty-five years of operational experience to write the book he wished had existed when he was a young constable. The result is a groundbreaking text that teaches modern investigative protocol, crime scene management, evidence handling, and the investigation of every major crime type, while doing something no other textbook does: taking seriously the African realities within which investigation actually occurs.
From the principles of investigation to the courtroom, this book walks the investigator through every stage of the criminal justice process. It includes detailed protocols for investigating homicide, robbery, traffic incidents, drug trafficking, cyber crime, community disputes, and gender-based violence. It explains the court process step by step. It confronts the contemporary challenges of political violence, artificial intelligence, and the exploitation of young Africans abroad, the neo-slavery of Kazi Majuu.
Most criminal investigation textbooks are written by Western academics for Western students, in contexts where forensic laboratories are available, witness protection is functional, and the community trusts the police. African investigators work in a different reality.
This book speaks directly to that reality. It acknowledges the resource constraints. It addresses the political pressures. It examines the spiritual dimensions of crime and justice that the formal system ignores. And it makes a compelling, evidence-based argument: that before colonialism introduced the modern police, Africa had its own effective systems of investigation, and those systems, the elder's council, the investigative oath, the community truth-finding ritual, still function today. The investigator who ignores them is investigating with one eye closed.
ZIONS CHILDREN by Mutendei Writes
Zions Children is an African family drama that highlights the crisis of gender roles in land ownership that precipitated the adoption of the land inheritance law allowing women to inherit land, centering the fragility of economic systems among the Kenyan/African modern nuclear family, where the surviving wife and children of the Mwela family find themselves victims of weaponized culture by their predatory inlaw.
The family struggles for survival against the backdrop of rural vs urban identity politics. Land has been such a contentious issue for Africans and the Carribean Diaspora. Given the contentious cardinal sin of land theft during colonial times, its self defeating that land theft happens among African and black diaspora communities, perpetrated by their own.
Zion's Children explores the rural-urban dissasociative cultural rift among African amd Black diaspora communities through the generational trauma that impacts the children of the Mwela family when culture is used as a weapon in land theft, the pitfalls that befall them, and the lengths that they and their friends must go to, to right wrongs and reclaim what is theirs.
COWARDS DIE SMILING by Ongoma Sakwah
Nairobi's most powerful lawyer is found dead in Karura Forest, and DCI detective Ssereya is handed the case. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: Nairobi has men who decide how investigations begin, how they end, and who the law should protect. They will do whatever it takes to ensure the truth stays buried and lies believable.
As she closes in, Ssereya becomes the one thing these men fear most: a stubborn investigator who refuses to be controlled. Soon, she is the most hunted woman in Nairobi. To survive, she must go rogue and stand against the very system built to shield the men she was employed to send to prison.
Ssereya has learned that in Nairobi, the brave live short, painful lives. Cowards survive long enough to tell the story. She must be brave and survive long enough to tell the story.
A Kampala Murder Plot: A Novel by Uly...
A Kampala Murder Plot is about a murder that takes place shortly after a guerrilla force takes over state power and most police officers are still in hiding. The guerrillas are handling (but also mishandling) police work with cheerful disregard for police procedure - a seemingly heinous offence in the eyes of the few returned cops that include the domineering Director of CID.
Corporal Shell Sonko, briskly solving cases of jealous-husband-wife tiffs and also of citizens hurt on either side of the just-ended civil war, is accosted by Julia Koko, the dazzling dame from Germany, whose niece, Dona Kyobe Mazzi, was recently murdered in a brutal multiple homicide that Koko feels police mishandled, ignored and even prematurely closed.
Employing common sense gained from reading lots of fiction and not much else, Corporal Sonko delves into the murder, quizzing big, sometimes nasty, tycoon suspects and their women, who include the wealthy and mercurial bully Jimmy Bikomago and his woman, the stunning Victoria Ntanya.
Finally, from a line of likely and unlikely suspects, Sonko tentatively brings his investigation to a plausible conclusion, to the bafflement of all present but also to the chagrin of the rather toothless but quite barky Director of CID.
Judge Stone: A Legal Thriller by Jame...
All rise…for Judge Stone.
The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. Everything changes when she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South.
Criminally, it’s open-and-shut.
Ethically, there is no middle ground.
Essentially, it’s a choice between life and death.
No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves.
The Heist By James Patterson
A rare masterpiece by Picasso is about to go to auction, and the whole world is watching.
But bright art student Halston Graham sees an opportunity. One that could secure millions for her future – and freedom for her wrongly imprisoned father…
To pull off the crime of the century, she must assemble an unlikely crack team: an expert in forgery, a ruthless mob boss, and an eccentric fashion designer.
In a game where trust is a luxury and failure is not an option, will Halston’s brilliance be enough to outsmart her enemies?
The Missing Corpse by Yasin Kakande
The president is dead. His son’s pretending he’s not.
And the corpse? Well, that’s missing.
WHEN THE CIA sniffs out whispers that an African general—who also happens to be the president’s darling son—may have murdered dear old dad and stashed the body like last week’s leftovers, they send in their best bloodhound: Agent Shawn Wayles. He’s good at two things—digging up dirt and getting shot at in places the U.S. swears it’s not involved.
Cursed Daughters: A Novel by Oyinkan ...
No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts as it goes. And now it's calm, rational Eniiyi's turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, and her family's insistence that she must be a reincarnation, has long been used to some strange familial beliefs.
Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family's history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?
Shadows of Nairobi & Other Short...
Shadows of Nairobi is a gripping urban drama that peels back the layers of Kenya’s capital—where ambition, secrets, and survival intertwine. Through vivid storytelling and unforgettable characters, it explores the hidden lives that move beneath the city’s bright lights and dark corners.
All characters are fictional.