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Kwei J. Quartey

WIFE OF THE GODS

For fans of Alexander McCall Smith, a debut mystery novel set in West Africa that introduces a marvelous detective and a fascinatingly rich community

Set in Ghana, with the action moving back and forth between the capital city of Accra and a small village in the Volta Region, Kwei Quartey’s lively debut novel is the story of Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, a good family man and a remarkably intuitive sleuth who is sent to the village of Ketanu—the site of his mother’s disappearance, many years ago—to solve the murder of an accomplished young AIDS worker.

As the mystery unfolds we meet a rich cast of characters, including the Trokosi, young women (called Wives of the Gods) who...

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