Love and Death Among the Cheetahs – Rhys Bowen
They are picked up in Nairobi and taken to a lovely house in Happy Valley–the center of upper-class English life there. Darcy finally confides that there have been some spectacular robberies in London and Paris, and it is suspected that the thief was a member of the aristocracy and may have fled to Kenya.
Georgie is shocked at the completely decadent lifestyle that involves wild parties and rampant infidelity. One of the leading lights in the community, Lord Cheriton, makes a play for Georgie. She rebuffs him. Then he is found dead along a lonely stretch of road. At first it seems to be a lion attack. But why was he on that stretch of road, alone, late at night? It seems the Happy Valley community wants to close the case, but as Georgie and Darcy investigate, almost everyone has a motive to want Lord Cheriton dead.
Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a travelling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honourable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned, the bookmobile will not return.
Memories and Such 