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I read this book because I need to get to the third book in the series for this year's reading challenge. It was a decent mystery but not amazing. The ending was quite satisfying, however.
I don't usually like to read books in a series back to back, and maybe I read this one too soon after Wife of the Gods, because I found myself very impatient. It follows the same pattern: Dawson, supposedly brilliant but also on the outs with his superior (for reasons I never understood), investigates a case; t ...more
I don't usually like to read books in a series back to back, and maybe I read this one too soon after Wife of the Gods, because I found myself very impatient. It follows the same pattern: Dawson, supposedly brilliant but also on the outs with his superior (for reasons I never understood), investigates a case; t ...more
I really enjoy this mystery series. I know very little about the country of Ghana, and I like this opportunity to read about it. The mystery is good in these novels, and the characters are excellent.
This second in the "Darko Dawson" series (following Wife of the Gods) finds the Ghanaian Detective Inspector roaming the capital city of Accra in search of the serial killer stalking the city's vast population of homeless children and teens. As best one can tell from the available statistics, about 1 in every 100 resident of Accra is a homeless street child, hustling for day-labor work and literally sleeping in the streets. This makes them easy prey for every kind of predator imaginable, especia
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Second Darko Dawson book set in Accra. Great insight into slum/street culture in urban West Africa. Characters strong with complex development. good stuff.
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