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Michael Stanley Books in Order

Michael Stanley has written 13 books, published between 2008 and 2022. The first book is A Carrion Death (2008) and the newest is A Deadly Covenant (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
2008–2022
Pages on record
2,603 in 6 of 13 books
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Michael Stanley writes police procedurals set in Botswana. Detective Kubu of the Botswana CID investigates murders across game reserves, villages and cities in every book, from A Carrion Death (2008) through The Death of the Mantis, Deadly Harvest and Dying to Live to A Deadly Covenant (2022). Thirteen titles are catalogued, two of them collections titled Detective Kubu Investigates.

How many Michael Stanley books are there?

Michael Stanley has 13 books, released between 2008 and 2022. 10 of them belong to the Detective Kubu series.

Michael Stanley Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Michael Stanley books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley, book 1 of the Detective Kubu series (2008)
  2. Cover of A Deadly Trade / The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu by Michael Stanley, book 2 of the Detective Kubu series (2009)
  3. Cover of The Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley, book 3 of the Detective Kubu series (2011)
  4. Cover of Deadly Harvest by Michael Stanley, book 4 of the Detective Kubu series (2013)
  1. 1
    A Carrion DeathDetective Kubu #12008 · 576 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008576
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  2. 2
    A Deadly Trade / The Second Death of Goodluck TinubuDetective Kubu #22009 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009496
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  3. 3
    The Death of the MantisDetective Kubu #32011 · 430 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011430
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  4. 4
    A Taste of Africa2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  5. 5
    Detective Kubu InvestigatesDetective Kubu #12013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  6. 6
    Deadly HarvestDetective Kubu #42013 · 477 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013477
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  7. 7
    A Death in the FamilyDetective Kubu #52015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
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  8. 8
    Dying to LiveDetective Kubu #62017 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017336
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  9. 9
    Dead of Night2019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
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  10. 10
    Detective Kubu Investigates 2Detective Kubu #22019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
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  11. 11
    African Mysteries2020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020–
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  12. 12
    Facets of DeathDetective Kubu #72020 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020288
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  13. 13
    A Deadly CovenantDetective Kubu #82022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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Michael Stanley books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Detective Kubu in order

10 books
  1. 1. A Carrion Death
  2. 1. Detective Kubu Investigates
  3. 2. A Deadly Trade / The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu
  4. 2. Detective Kubu Investigates 2
  5. 3. The Death of the Mantis
  6. 4. Deadly Harvest
  7. 5. A Death in the Family
  8. 6. Dying to Live
  9. 7. Facets of Death
  10. 8. A Deadly Covenant

Standalone books

3 books

3 Michael Stanley titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Michael Stanley books in order?

You only need to read Michael Stanley books in order within the Detective Kubu series, which holds 10 of the 13 Michael Stanley books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Michael Stanley

Start with A Carrion Death (2008), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Michael Stanley book?

A Deadly Covenant (2022) is the newest Michael Stanley book released so far.

Is there a new Michael Stanley book coming?

No next Michael Stanley book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Michael Stanley at a glance

Paused
No new Michael Stanley title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Michael Stanley books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,603 pages across the 6 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 454 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Michael Stanley books, 8 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Michael Stanley books are about

7 of the 13 Michael Stanley books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: botswana is tagged on 4 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.