Book 1
Sibanda and the Rainbird
A body near Thunduluka Lodge, vulture-marked and wrong from the start; tyre tracks, a knife marked B, and a flake of blue metallic paint.
- Thunduluka Lodge
- tyre tracks
- knife marked B
- blue metallic paint
Detective Sibanda
Books in order
Start with Sibanda and the Rainbird for the first case. Then follow the trail through the Death's Head Moth, the Black Sparrow Hawk, and Night Adder, where Sibanda becomes the man being hunted.
Series guide
Zimbabwe-set crime fiction, read from the beginning
The Sibanda novels are place-rich detective stories: Gubu police work, bush roads, wildlife detail, Miss Daisy, Sergeant Ncube, and dry humour threaded through murder investigations. For a fuller guide, start with Detective Sibanda or the Zimbabwe-set crime fiction overview.
Book 2
Sibanda and the Death's Head Moth
One body burns at a lightning-struck tree; another dies by the Zambezi. Sibanda is left with fabric, a puncture wound, and a diary written in code.
- lightning-struck tree
- Zambezi bank
- coded diary
- ivory smuggling
Book 3
Sibanda and the Black Sparrow Hawk
A skinned body beside the railway line points Sibanda toward a killer using the train as a killing field.
- railway line
- missing girls
- winter drought
- Oxford English Dictionary
Book 4 / Latest Sibanda novel
Sibanda and the Night Adder
Two murders in Gubu pull Sibanda into blood diamonds, official pursuit, wilderness survival, and the road north to Victoria Falls.
- Gubu village
- blood diamonds
- CIO pursuit
- Victoria Falls