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Kwei J. Quartey
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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 ...
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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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