Kwei Quartey. Soho Crime, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-389-8
Quartey’s mastery of the art of misdirection serves him well in his third mystery featuring Accra, Ghana, homicide detective Darko Dawson (after 2011’s Children of the Street). At dawn one morning in the Gulf of Guinea, a crane operator on an oil...
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Kwei Quartey. Soho Crime, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-61695-630-1
Quartey’s exceptional fourth Darko Dawson mystery (after 2014’s Murder at Cape Three Points) takes the Accra, Ghana, policeman, recently promoted to chief inspector, to the remote town of Obuasi. There he must work with the inept and undisciplined...
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Kwei Quartey. Soho Crime, $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-61695-708-7
Murder strikes close to home in Quartey’s disappointing fifth mystery featuring Ghanaian Chief Insp. Darko Dawson (after 2016’s Gold of Our Fathers). When Darko arrives at the scene of a double homicide, he’s shaken to discover that one of the...
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Kwei Quartey. Soho Crime, $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-64129-070-8
At the start of this solid series launch from Quartey (the Darko Dawson series), a sniper assassinates Bernard Evans-Aidoo, a Ghanaian presidential candidate campaigning on an anti-corruption platform. Meanwhile, the hopes of 26-year-old Emma Djan,...
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Kwei Quartey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-207-8
In Quartey’s terrific sequel to 2020’s The Missing American, PI Emma Djan takes on a nearly year-old cold case—the murder of high-profile fashion icon Lady Araba in the bedroom of her lush mansion in a gated community known as the Beverly Hills of...
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Kwei Quartey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-339-6
Quartey’s intriguing third Emma Djan investigation (after 2021’s Sleep Well, My Lady) finds the Ghanaian PI, an operative for the Sowah Private Investigators Agency, leading the search for Ngozi Ojukwu, a prominent diplomat’s 18-year-old daughter,...
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Kwei Quartey, read by Simon Prebble, Tantor Media, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hours, $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1341-5
The murder of a young med student brings Det. Insp. Darko Dawson from his police department in Ghana’s capital, Accra, to the smalltown of Ketanu, where some dark secrets of his own lie buried. In returning to this familiar landscape, Dawson looks...
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Kwei Quartey. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-588-8
Quartey’s fourth mystery featuring PI Emma Djan (after Last Seen in Lapaz) is the best yet, interweaving an agonizing portrait of anti-LGBTQ prejudice in Ghana with a top-notch whodunit. Djan works for Accra’s Sowah Agency, an investigative firm...
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