As many projects across the world, the publication of All Come to Dust in Zimbabwe has been held back by the Covid-19 pandemic. Two days before the launch, copies are rolling off the press at Directory Publishers of Bulawayo following the installation of up-to-date digital printing equipment there - that installation having been delayed by the travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.
Joining Bryony Rheam at the launch will be fellow Bulawayo writer Mzana Mthimkhulu and academic Drew Shaw. All are welcome to come along, free admission.
Bryony Rheam, a winner of the international ‘Write Your Own Christie’ competition, is an enthusiast for the writing of Agatha Christie, and All Come to Dust is written in the style of a Christie detective story.
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In All Come to Dust, Marcia Pullman has been found dead at home in the leafy suburbs of Bulawayo. Chief Inspector Edmund Dube is onto the case at once, but it becomes increasingly clear that there are those, including the dead woman’s husband, who do not want him asking questions.
The case drags Edmund back into his past, to his childhood to when his mother's employers disappeared one day and were never heard from again, an incident that has shadowed his life.
As his investigation into the death progresses, Edmund realises the two mysteries are inextricably linked and that unravelling the past is a dangerous undertaking threatening his very sense of self.
The novel is set in modern day Zimbabwe, but it also looks back to the time just before Independence.
This is Bryony Rheam's second novel, her first novel This September Sun having gained critical acclaim.
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