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Every June, the World Cup brings soccer fans, team owners, sponsors, and world dignitaries to southern Africa, particularly Botswana. Americans, North Koreans, the Okavango, Arabs, French, Chinese, and Russians are scattered among various lodges and hotels in the country, all watching the games...and each other. To the north, Patriarche, a silverba

Frederick Ramsay was raised on the east coast and attended graduate school in Chicago. He was a writer of mysteries set in Virginia, (the Ike Schwartz Mysteries) Botswana Mystery series, Jerusalem Mystery series and stand-alones (Impulse, Judas: The Gospel of Betrayal). He was a retired Episcopal Priest, Academic, and author.

STARRED REVIEW "A bit rougher-edged than Alexander McCall Smith's genteel "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series, this mystery will still attract his fans and those who like Michael Stanley's Detective Kubu series (e.g., The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu )." -Library Journal of Predators "Through parallel stories, Ramsay's clever stand-alone shows the ruthlessness of the business and the animal worlds without resorting to gimmickry. Ramsay (Impulse) matches keen characterizations with an obvious affection for Botswana, a complicated country that's more than Alexander McCall Smith's "quaint mysteries," as one character observes." -Publishers Weekly of Predators STARRED REVIEW "Featuring great characters, snippets of Southern culture and history, and snappy dialog, this is too good to miss." -Library Journal of Stranger Room