Richard Kunzmann

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Richard Kunzmann (born 1976) is a Namibian born novelist noted for popular crime fiction. He was educated in South Africa, attending Pretoria Boys High School. After university he moved to the United Kingdom. His first novel, Bloody Harvests, was published in 2004, was well-received critically and met with moderate commercial success. The story is set in rural KwaZulu-Natal and features a conspiracy involving a grisly series of murders in which the victims' bodies are used to make muti (traditional medicine.) Kunzmann created the character of Detective Inspector Jacob Tshabalala as a modern South African detective in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. Kunzmann has subsequently published a second novel, Salamander Cotton, set in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, involving a conspiracy in a former asbestos mining town, also featuring Inspector Tshabalala.