Goodreads asked Kwei Quartey:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Kwei Quartey I go frequently to Ghana to research the topics in my novels. In 2016, when I arrived in Accra, the person with whom I had entrusted my SUV had disappeared into thin air--and so had my SUV! It took several days to discover he had sold it without my knowledge and absconded with the money.

Months of detective work (I hired a private investigator) followed to find out where the guy was. My PI cleverly went underground and got the thief's wife to talk. Then, coordinating with the police, a trap was set by contacting the crook and inviting him to a "job fair," where the police were waiting for him. It took some five months to capture him. He had crossed borders into the neighboring countries and had been on the run all that time.

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