Richard Crompton is a Manchester-born British journalist, and author of crime fiction featuring Mollel, a Maasai detective in Kenya.
[1] Crompton, a former journalist for the BBC, moved to Kenya in 2005[2] with his wife, a human rights lawyer, who took up a job to prosecute the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.
[3] In 2007 Crompton covered the post-election violence in Kenya for CNBC.
[4] In 2010 Crompton won the Daily Telegraph ghost story competition with his short story inspired by Facebook titled Friends.
[1][2] In 2013 his first novel was published as The Honey Guide in the UK/Commonwealth and Hour of the Red God in the US/Canada.