Gold of Our Fathers
Kwei Quartey

Darko Dawson Mystery #4
Soho Crime
May 2016
On Sale: April 26, 2016
Featuring: Darko Dawson
352 pages
ISBN: 1616956305
EAN: 9781616956301
Kindle: B00Y6RKZ0I
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery

Riveting! Murder, illegal gold mines, corruption and everyday life in modern Ghana!

Darko Dawson, Chief Inspector in the Ghana police service, returns in this atmospheric crime series often compared to Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels

Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service—the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn’t have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana’s capital, out to remote Obuasi in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines.

Worst of all, when Dawson arrives at the Obuasi headquarters, he finds it in complete disarray. The office is a mess of uncatalogued evidence and cold case files, morale is low, and discipline among officers is lax. On only his second day on the job, the body of a Chinese mine owner is unearthed in his own gold quarry. As Dawson investigates the case, he quickly learns how dangerous it is to pursue justice in this kingdom of illegal gold mines, where the worst offenders have so much money they have no fear of the law.