FREE! First 3 Chapters of THE COLOUR OF STILL WATER by C. Kamau Waweru

FREE! THREE CHAPTER EXCERPT OF THE COLOUR OF STILL WATER

Title: The Colour of Still Water

Series: The Padre Nyekundu Series, Book 1

Author: C. Kamau Waweru

Imprint: Dira Prime

Publisher: Dira Ebook Publishing, Nairobi

Genre: Literary Mystery / Speculative Fiction

Setting: Nairobi, 2055

Format: PDF A6 phone-screen optimised e-book

Excerpt Size: 3 Chapters

Nairobi, 2055.

A defrocked priest rides to a funeral he does not want to attend, in a pair of red shoes nobody has asked him about, through a Nairobi morning that is still deciding what kind of day to be.

Eusebius Odongo counts fourteen steps at the stairwell where a young priest died. He sits through a homily and listens beneath the words. He catches three things at the funeral that raise questions he is not sure he wants answered. Then he goes back to the boda boda stage, where a woman named Scholastica pours his chai at exactly the right temperature and says the name of a parish clerk he has never met.

These three chapters open the door to a Nairobi rendered at the level of scent and shadow and the sound a cup makes when it is placed on a wooden counter by someone who has been watching you longer than you know. They introduce a man whose training as a priest taught him to hear what people mean.

The Colour of Still Water. The first book in the Padre Nyekundu Trilogy.

C. Kamau Waweru. Dira Prime.

Dira Prime is the adult fiction division of Dira Ebook Publishing.