CHILDREN OF THE STREET by Kwei Quartey
Publisher Random House, July 12, 2011 Kwei Quartey’s debut novel Wife
of the Gods charmed reviewers and readers alike. With his protagonist
Inspector Darko Dawson, literary fans found a new keen-eyed and all too
human detective to root for. In CHILDREN OF THE STREET Dawson returns to
solve an even more gruesome and perplexing case.
In the slums of Accra, Ghana’s fast-moving, cosmopolitan capital, teenagers
are turning up dead. Inspector Darko Dawson has seen many crimes, but this
latest string of murders—in which all the young victims bear a chilling
signature—is the most unsettling of his career. Are these heinous acts a
form of ritual killing or the work of a lone, cold-blooded monster? With
time running out, Dawson embarks on a harrowing journey through the city’s
underbelly and confronts the brutal world of the urban poor, where street
children are forced to fight for their very survival—and a cunning killer
seems just out of reach.
Through first-hand research on the streets of Accra, Quartey paints a vivid
picture of Ghana as a country full of contradictions. Between the push and
pull of tradition and modernity, wealth and extreme poverty, readers will no
doubt be mesmerized by this latest installment in the Inspector Darko Dawson
Mystery series. 
“Kwei Quartey does what all the best storytellers do. He takes you to a
world you have never seen and makes it as real to you as your own backyard.
In Children of the Street he brings a story that is searing and original and
done just right. Inspector Darko Dawson is relentless and I look forward to
riding with him again.”
--Michael Connelly author of The Reversal and the Ninth
Dragon
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