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Wife of the Gods

Wife of the Gods

Quartey, Kwei

Paperback

Series: Darko Dawson Mystery, Book 1

Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0812979362
ISBN13: 9780812979367
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Aug 3 2010
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
Fans of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency may have a new hero: Detective Inspector Darko Dawson.--The Wall Street Journal

Introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson: dedicated family man, rebel in the office, ace in the field--and one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. When we first meet Dawson, he's been ordered by his cantankerous boss to leave behind his loving wife and young son in Ghana's capital city to lead a murder investigation: In a shady grove outside the small town of Ketanu, a young woman--a promising medical student--has been found dead under suspicious circumstances. Dawson is fluent in Ketanu's indigenous language, so he's the right man for the job, but the local police are less than thrilled with an outsider's interference. For Dawson, this sleepy corner of Ghana is rife with emotional land mines: an estranged relationship with the family he left behind twenty-five years earlier and the painful memory of his own mother's inexplicable disappearance. Armed with remarkable insight and a healthy dose of skepticism, Dawson soon finds his cosmopolitan sensibilities clashing with age-old customs, including a disturbing practice in which teenage girls are offered to fetish priests as trokosi, or Wives of the Gods. Delving deeper into the student's haunting death, Dawson will uncover long-buried secrets that, to his surprise, hit much too close to home.

Praise for Wife of the Gods

An absolute gem . . . mystery fans have an important new voice to savor.--Los Angeles Times

Full of suspense, humor and plot twists . . . Quartey's remarkable characters give the reader a worthy whodunit.--Ebony

[A] winning debut . . . Dawson is a wonderful creation, a man as rich with contradictions as the Ghana Quartey so delightfully evokes.--Publishers Weekly

Engrossing . . . [Quartey] renders a compelling cast of characters. . . . Fans of McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency will relish the opportunity to discover yet another intriguing area of Africa.--Booklist (starred review)

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