Thabang Maje, retired school teacher and part-time private eye, is contacted by Regional Education Director J. B. M. Motau to solve the case of a missing school teacher, Mamorena Marumo. There are two complicating factors: firstly, Thabang was in love with the elusive and bewitching Mamo when they were both teenagers; and, secondly, to complete his task, he’ll have to enrol as an under-cover primary-school teacher in the far-flung village of Marakong-a-Badimo, near Mafikeng.It doesn’t take long...
Perhaps Thabang Maje should be grateful. He has a beautiful wife, Lesego, a newborn baby daughter and a good job as a private investigator. But Lesego and their baby girl are still recovering in hospital after a car crash which took the life of their unborn son, and Thabang is finding it impossible to focus on his paperwork and even harder to forgive and forget. Then an old file surfaces, naming the man already uppermost in Thabang’s mind: Sandile Nkosi, ruthless businessman and father to the...
