Richard Crompton

Richard Crompton is a reputed British novelist, who likes to write crime fiction, suspense, detective fiction, and mystery novels. He is particularly famous for writing the Detective Mollel series featuring a Massai detective named Mollel based in Nairobi, Kenya. Crompton is also a renowned journalist and has formerly worked for the BBC. He relocated to Nairobi with his wife and three children in 2005 and has been living there since then. Crompton’s wife works as a lawyer for human rights and she decided to move to Nairobi to accept a job offer in which she researched on the Rwandan genocide and worked to prosecute its perpetrators. In 2007, Crompton worked as a journalist for CNBC and covered the violence that erupted in Kenya after the elections. He won the 2010 Daily Telegraph competition of ghost stories. He had participated in this competition with his short story called Friends, which was inspired by the background story of Facebook.