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kwei quartey wife of the gods unabridged

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Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey Unabridged ~9.5 hours Read by Simon Prebble Lyrical and captivating, Kwei Quarteyﾒs debut novel brings to life # the majesty and charm of Ghanaﾖfrom the capital city of Accra to a small community # where long-buried secrets are about to rise to the surface. In a shady grove outside the small town of Ketanu, a young womanﾗa promising med studentﾗhas been found dead under suspicious circumstances. Eager to close the case, the local police have arrested a poor, enamored teenage boy and charged him with murder. Needless to say, they are less than thrilled when an outside force arrives from the big city to lead an inquiry into the baffling case. Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, fluent in Ketanuﾒs indigenous language, is the right man for the job # , but he hates the idea of leaving his loving wife and young son, a plucky kid with a defective heart. Pressured by his cantankerous boss, Dawson agrees to travel to Ketanu, sort through the evidence, and tie up the loose ends as quickly and as efficiently as possible. But for Dawson, this sleepy corner of Ghana is rife with emotional land mines: an estranged relationship with the family # he left behind twenty-five years earlier and the painful memory of his own motherﾒs sudden, inexplicable disappearance. Dawson is armed with remarkable insight and a healthy dose of skepticism, but these gifts # , sometimes overshadowed by his mercurial temper, may not be enough to solve this haunting mystery. In Ketanu, he finds that his cosmopolitan sensibilities clash with age-old customs, including a disturbing practice in which teenage girls are offered by their families to fetish priests as trokosi, or Wives of the Gods. This is a compelling and unique mystery, enriched by an exotic setting and a vivid cast. And Inspector Darko Dawsonﾗdedicated family man, rebel in the office # , and ace in the fieldﾗis one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. Publishers Weekly Quartey\'s winning debut, a police procedural set in modern Ghana, introduces gifted detective Darko Dawson. Dawson leaves the capital city of Accra to investigate a murder in remote Ketanu, where traditional beliefs about the spirit world still reign. 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, the ancient custom in which young girls become slave wives to local priests. 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. Dawson is a wonderful creation, a man as rich with contradictions as the Ghana Quartey so delightfully evokesﾗa loving husband and father with anger management # issues on the job and a personal fondness for marijuana. Despite a not hugely exciting denouement, readers will be eager for the next installment in what one hopes will be a long series.-------------------------------------Torrent downloaded from http://thepiratebay.org

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