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Richard Crompton | |
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| Born | |
| Occupation | Author, journalist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Crime fiction |
| Notable works | Hour of the Red God (US)/The Honey Guide (UK), Hell's Gate |
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Richard Crompton is a Manchester-born British journalist, and author of crime fiction featuring Mollel, a Maasai detective in Kenya. [1]
Crompton, a former journalist for the BBC, moved to Kenya in 2005 [2] with his wife, a human rights lawyer, who took up a job to prosecute the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide. [3]
In 2007 Crompton covered the post-election violence in Kenya for CNBC. [4]
In 2010 Crompton won the Daily Telegraph ghost story competition with his short story inspired by Facebook titled Friends. [1] [2]
In 2013 his first novel was published as The Honey Guide in the UK/Commonwealth and Hour of the Red God in the US/Canada. [1] The novel features Detective Mollel, a Maasai police detective with the Kenyan CID.
