A review by alanfederman
Nairobi Heat by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

3.0

One of the joys of reading is that it takes you places or points in time that you can never reach. This was a pretty standard whodunit, a mysterious body, multiple suspects, a femme fatale, no one is who you think they are, etc., etc. But really the mystery set in Madison WI, Nairobi Kenya and Rwanda was a pretext to examine issues of race and culture. Moral ambiguities are everywhere and though the plot itself was only fair, the questions it raised were well worth the read.