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07 April 2021 - 13:09 By Michael Sears Kwei Quartey's 'Sleep Well, My Lady' is set around the murder of a famous Ghanaian fashion designer. Image: Supplied Published in the Big Thrill (01/04/2020) Last year, acclaimed author Kwei Quartey branched out from his celebrated police procedurals set in Ghana featuring Inspector Darko Dawson to start a new series around PI Emma Djan. The first book in the series, The Missing American, is a twisty page-turner, delving into the dark domain of Ghanaian internet fraudsters - but they are only part of a vicious web of corruption and witchcraft that reaches all the way to the top echelons of society.
Share The butler did it. Or in this case, the chauffeur. Well, at least that’s who the Ghana police pin it on when renowned fashion designer, Lady Araba, is found bludgeoned to death in her luxury villa in a gated estate in Trasacco Valley – the Beverly Hills of Accra. Don’t be fooled by the cosy-sounding set-up, though. This is no rehash of The No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Kwei Quartey’s second Emma Djan novel is dark detective fiction with a hint of noir and an authentic African flavour. Ten months after the murder, Dele Teffeyfio, Araba’s dressmaker aunt who took her under her wing as a child, walks into the Sowah Private Investigators Agency requesting the murder be reinvestigated. Dele is convinced that Araba’s on-off celebrity boyfriend, Augustus Seeza, is guilty of her murder. Seeza’s depended on Araba to maintain his luxurious lifestyle, which included smart cars and imported cigars, combined with his addiction to alcohol. This makes him a likely candidate.
Audrey Lane, the headstrong young heroine of Wedderburn’s high-powered follow-up to The Milk Chicken Bomb is obsessed with everything about the open road. At 20, Audrey gets her dream job driving a truck around the oil fields not far from Calgary, Alberta. Shortly after, she impulsively runs away from the job and the camp where she’s been staying, and ends up in a gritty Edmonton bar. She talks her way into a job as the driver for a bar band called the Lever Men, with none of them sober enough to drive to their next gig. Along the way, Audrey furthers her cross-country education: lonesome highways, dive bars with names like the Crash Palace (and the unique characters who frequent them), and camaraderie with the four Lever Men, to whom she is both den mother and little sister. Wedderburn then jumps nearly a decade to find Audrey a single mother with a young daughter. After reading about the death of Crash Palace owner Alex Main in a Calgary paper, Audrey reels back into memories of the past, and she feels compelled to attend his funeral. In rich and energetic prose, Wedderburn makes Audrey a character to root for, and her reminiscences are moving and illuminating. Wedderburn’s engaging tale will hot-wire readers’ brains, making Audrey’s wanderlust palpable and contagious.
Pegasus: 368 pages, $26 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. No matter where you live or what you celebrate, the December lull offers an irresistible tableau: you, a beverage of your choice and a good book, curled up by a fire. Perhaps it’s a hammock or a beach towel, but even without a hearth, there’s something classic about the perfect fireside book — more often than not, a cozy mystery. No gore, just a clean puzzle to solve. Arriving like fine British clockwork at the end of this very uncozy year are two titles that will slake your thirst for clues, red herrings and, most of all, familiarity. That’s because they involve two
9 books to read over the holidays from The Next Chapter's mystery book panel The Next Chapter columnists J.D. Singh, P.K. Rangachari and Margaret Cannon reveal their mystery and thriller fiction picks for the holiday season. Social Sharing Posted: Dec 18, 2020 12:29 PM ET | Last Updated: December 18, 2020 This photo was taken in 2019. The Next Chapter mystery panel consists of Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Cannon (left), McMaster University professor P.K. Rangachari (second from left), and bookstore owner J.D. Singh (second from right), seen here with Shelagh Rogers.(CBC)