David Hickson

When a conniving, over-the-hill Hollywood diva mysteriously turns up dead, no one who knew her is surprised. Now everyone from her co-stars to her director is a suspect and an ambitious police detective, who's also an aspiring screenwriter/actor/rapper, must get to the bottom of this hilarious whodunit.

Young Musa is orphaned after a mysterious illness strikes his village in KwaZulu Natal. To help his grandmother, Musa sets out for Johannesburg with his father's last gift, a tribal drum, in search of work and his uncle. The journey confronts him with the stark realities of urban life, but his indomitable spirit never wavers; he returns with a truth and understanding his elders have failed to grasp.