
EVERYTHING THE LIGHT TOUCHES
A Padre Nyekundu Mystery (Book 2)
by C. Kamau Waweru
Nairobi, 2056. Five years after losing his priesthood, Eusebius Odongo has become an essential fixture at the Pumwani boda boda stage, known informally by his fellow riders and locals as "Padre Nyekundu". He is the man to see when you need a discreet listener to take on burdens that the city’s institutions ignore. The stage's fragile normalcy is interrupted when a grieving man named Daniel Kazungu arrives at dawn. Daniel's wife, Josephine, recently died in a sealed room at an automated vertical farm after discovering dangerous financial discrepancies across three local women's cooperatives. Her only surviving evidence is a mysterious phone number carried on a folded piece of paper.
As Eusebius begins to investigate the anomaly that cost Josephine her life, he is drawn into a tangled web of delayed dividends, quiet whistleblowers who protect handwritten ledgers, and automated corporate fraud. In a city where digital trails can be altered and paper records hold dangerous secrets, Padre Nyekundu must navigate the shadowy divide between what institutions promise and what they actually deliver: unearthing a conspiracy that threatens to strike uncomfortably close to home.
Publication Specifics:
Title: Everything the Light Touches
Series Title: The Padre Nyekundu Mysteries (Book 2)
Author: C. Kamau Waweru
Genre: Mystery, Literary Mystery, Speculative Fiction, African Futurism
Format: A6 size PDF Ebook, optimised for reading on cell phone screens
Imprint: Dira Prime
Publisher: Dira Ebook Publishing
Place of Publication: Nairobi, Kenya
Publication Date: 2026
Edition: Electronic Edition
Copyright: © 2026 C. Kamau Waweru
ISBN: 978-9914-9448-7-7
Length: Approximately 70,000 words / 43 Chapters
Price: 975 Kenya Shillings