Full name: Wife of the Gods: A Novel

Author: Kwei Quartey Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller Culture: Africa Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812979367 0812979362

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. This book is part of the "Darko Dawson" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Gold of Our Fathers" First published in 2016 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Murder at Cape Three Points" First published in 2014 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Children of the Street" First published in 2011 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: Children of the Street by Kwei Quartey Murder at Cape Three Points by Kwei Quartey Gold of Our Fathers by Kwei Quartey The Congo Venus by Matthew Head The Devil in the Bush by Matthew Head The African Poison Murders by Elspeth Huxley Murder on Safari by Elspeth Huxley Murder at Government House by Elspeth Huxley A King of Infinite Space by Tyler Dilts Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert Where the Bodies Are Buried by Janet Dawson The End of the Pier by Martha Grimes Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins by Reed Farrel Coleman Mobbed by Carol Higgins Clark Death in Zanzibar by M. M. Kaye The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza Make Me by Lee Child Silent Child by Sarah A. Denzil