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Loading... Wife of the Gods: A Novel (original 2009; edition 2009)by Kwei Quartey
Work InformationWife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey (2009)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Enjoyable. Ghanaian food & culture with a standard mystery with appropriate twists & turns ( ) I picked this up from a list of detective stories outside the USA. I did enjoy it but I'm not sure I'll go any more in the series. I enjoyed the setting in Ghana and there were alot of good elements but it didn't really come together very well until the end. The ending was well done but there was alot of meandering to get there. no reviews | add a review
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An original debut novel set in Ghana, is the story of Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, who is sent from the big city to the village of Ketanu to solve the murder of an accomplished young AIDS worker. Darko's own mother disappeared from this same village many years ago, and as the mystery unfolds, the reader meets a rich cast of characters, and learns about Trokosi, a system where young teenage girls are sent to live with fetish priests to bring good fortune to their families. Darko explores the motivations and secrets of the residents of Ketanu, and in addition to solving a recent murder, discovers the shocking truth about his own mother's disappearance. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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