The Zambezi Code: A Phoebe McCabe Mystery Thriller - Paperback

by Jane Thornley (Author)

In 1856, two Victorian siblings follow in David Livingstone's footsteps to the banks of the Zambezi river in present day Zimbabwe, the brother seeking rare flora, his sister a lost African civilization. Only, Louise Hopkins will never return though her brother Terrence will bring home her findings: a peculiar mask with hennaed dreadlocks plus two jeweled staves.

Over a century later, Phoebe McCabe is drawn into a case involving a cache of stolen African art sequestered in an oligarch's London mansion. As the Agency of the Ancient Lost and Found pluck away at the repatriation issues, they unleash a fury of recrimination, family secrets, and clues that may lead to an ancient stash of treasure, providing they can decipher the codes while enduring a gauntlet of Russian fury and African terrors.

Louise Hopkins kept an illustrated journal in which she described strange events including a witchdoctor's chilling prophecy, a mysterious tribe, and the story of three wise elders that protected a great trade route seven hundred years earlier. Armed with this account, Phoebe and her agency must decode the truth locked in local Shona stories and folklore before mercenaries plunder the rich African heritage and destroy everyone she loves.

Plunging into a world both beautiful and terrifying, Phoebe wrestles a powerful force that our modern sensibilities would consider surreal. But her insight can only unlock ancient secrets by stepping into the minds of those that came before, even if it means participating in terrifying rituals that deliver her to the brink of oblivion.

Moonbows over Victoria Falls, a mysterious tribe still in hiding to this day, the mighty Zambezi river, and the spirit of the African people, these fantastic elements of the story are real. Welcome to the Agency of the Ancient Lost & Found book 7 where fact is fiction and fiction promises to keep you enthralled until the very last satisfying page.