As he investigates the young girl’s death, he’ll uncover secrets that the town doesn’t want to uncover and secrets that have a personal connection to him. The locals are not happy with the outside assistance and for good reason, Dawson uncovers a disturbing practice in which teenage girls are offered to fetish priests as trokosi, or Wives of the Gods.

In this book, Dawson leaves his family in Ghana to head to a shady grove outside the small town of Ketanu to investigate a murder. The first book is called Wife of the Gods and introduces us to Detective Inspector Darko Dawson. What a wonderful mystery I think Kwei Quartey will be one of my new favorite authors Oh please let it be a series The story takes place in Ghana, in city, town, and village. 1 Ladies Detective Agency may have a new hero: Detective Inspector Darko Dawson. Derek hires Emma to find him and the two find themselves deep in a world of people willing to kill to protect their secrets.Īnother series by Quartey is the Dark Dawson Mystery series. Buy a cheap copy of Wife of the Gods book by Kwei Quartey. He sends her thousands of dollars, to the chagrin of his son Derek, and then decides to visit her- and then he disappears. Her first case involves an American named Gordon who after losing his wife, meets a young Ghanian widow online that he connects with. Emma once had dreams of rising through the police ranks like her father, but that world came crashing down and now she finds herself working at a private detective agency. The case will lead her to a dark world of email scams and fetish priests in the world’s internet capital of Ghana. The book focuses on Emma Djan, a private investigator, who gets her first missing persons case. The Missing American is the first book in the Emma Djan Investigation. If You Like Kwei Quartey Books, You’ll Love…

Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey