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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.

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A skinned body is found beside the railway line in the Matabele bush. More girls go missing, more bones are discovered, and Sibanda begins to read distance itself as evidence.

Berry Barton returns to his thoughts; Sergeant Ncube discovers the Oxford English Dictionary; Gubu police politics remain almost as treacherous as a bad road in drought.

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Fans of Alexander McCall Smith will love C.M. Elliott's Sibanda series.

Sunday Times (SA)

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Series loyaltySibanda and the Black Sparrow Hawk

Love the Sibanda books.

By the third case, readers are often returning for the company as well as the crime: Sibanda, Ncube, Miss Daisy, Gubu, and the odd dignity of under-resourced police work.

Sue Morris, Goodreads
Humour and wildlifeSibanda and the Black Sparrow Hawk

Full of fun and also beautiful descriptions of wildlife.

That balance is central to the series: dark crimes, comic restraint, and wildlife detail that is not decorative but part of how Sibanda thinks.

Mish Middelmann, Goodreads