It is a murder story and the chief protagonist is Detective. Despite a not hugely exciting denouement, readers will be eager for the next installment in what one hopes will be a long series. Wife of the Gods is set in Ghana roving between Accra and the Volta River region, as well as Kumasi. Dawson is a wonderful creation, a man as rich with contradictions as the Ghana Quartey so delightfully evokes-a loving husband and father with anger management issues on the job and a personal fondness for marijuana. Ketanu is also the village from which Dawson's mother disappeared years before, and his visits awaken a buried need to solve that mystery as well. , the ancient custom in which young girls become slave wives to local priests.
He finds no lack of suspects, as the beautiful victim was a married man's impatient mistress and a controversial crusader against AIDS and trokosi Dawson leaves the capital city of Accra to investigate a murder in remote Ketanu, where traditional beliefs about the spirit world still reign. Quartey's winning debut, a police procedural set in modern Ghana, introduces gifted detective Darko Dawson.
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