Uriah's Vengeance (Volume 1)

Chenai "Ce-Ce" and Farai Chisango of the Dread Eye Detective Agency are a sister and brother team of private investigators operating out of Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. This is the first of a series of pacey stories, reminiscent of the Macmillan Pacesetters series of the 80s and 90s reflect the author's desire to counter the prevalent negative image of Rastafarian people in Zimbabwe and his grasp of contemporary African and world affairs Uriah's Vengeance is an action packed novel about power, money, love and deceit, hate and crime, a syndrome affecting the emerging bourgeoisie class in Zimbabwe and other developing countries. Ce-Ce and Farai are assigned by the wife of a wealthy businessman to protect him from a possible attempt on his life by an extortionist. Despite their efforts, he is brutally murdered in one of his homes and they have to find his killer. Clues point to a quest for revenge for a terrible wrong dating back to Zimbabwe's war for independence. However as the sister and brother duo uncover the past, shocking discoveries suggest a motive much closer to the ethos of contemporary society; sheer avarice.