CROCODILE TEARS
Global Village Mystery #1


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Crocodile basking in the sun
Nile crocodile

The Legs in the Crocodile

Hannah Craig, daughter of missionaries, wants nothing more than to continue living her fully engaged life in the small town on an Ethiopian tributary of the Nile where she was born.

But, when the crocodile that’s been terrorizing the village of her lifelong friend Omot is killed and cut open, human legs tumble out—the legs of her beloved godson, Daniel, son of the crocodile hunters’ leader.

The Troubling Remains

She and Daniel’s parents cannot rest until they track down an evil they sense behind the boy’s taking. As their suspicions close in on a government plan to toss traditional farms under the bulldozers of foreign agribusiness, they are increasingly threatened by the feared national Security apparatus. Still, when Hannah learns that Solomon, the new director of the local Security, is the long-lost troubled son of a childhood friend, she feels she must try to help him. 

Rural landscape with a straw hut
Traditional Anuak life (photo Steven Schewe)
Sparse vegetation in dry countryside
Gambela forest after clearance

Never the Same Again

As if she doesn’t already have enough on her plate, her granddaughter Becca appears, sent to bring her “home” to Iowa. The cherry on top of it all is Wyatt, the American funder of traditional farming co-ops who proves more accurately than her stethoscope that her fifty-year-old heart is still in working order. By the time she’s arrived at the soul-wrenching truth, her wits are tested, her life endangered, and her faith in her fellow humans tried. Her life in this town she loves will never be the same again.