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Gold of Our Fathers: Darko Dawson Mystery Series, Book 4
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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.
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.

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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.
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      • source: BooklistPraise for Murder at Cape Three Points
      • content: "Quartey presents a good-hearted policeman in a noir world of exploitation and corruption."
      • premium: False
      • source: PRI's The World
      • content: "For hardcore Darko fans, and newcomers as well, this is a page-turner."
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      • source: Oprah.com
      • content: "Quartey provides such a strong sense of Ghana that you'll be wishing for a platter of kenkey, a staple food made from fermented corn, to keep you from biting your nails to the quick as Dawson winnows down the list of suspects to solve the mystery."
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      • content: "Offers a more contemporary portrait of corporate greed on the continent than McCall Smith's gentle portrait of rural crime."
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      • source: Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
      • content: "Quartey's mastery of the art of misdirection serves him well in his third mystery featuring Accra, Ghana, homicide detective Darko Dawson . . . A complex plot, combined with a warts-and-all lead and an evocative portrayal of the author's native country, add up to a winner."
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        Starred review from February 8, 2016
        Quartey’s exceptional fourth Darko Dawson mystery (after 2014’s Murder at Cape Three Points) takes the Accra, Ghana, policeman, recently promoted to chief inspector, to the remote town of Obuasi. There he must work with the inept and undisciplined local police, whose deficiencies handicap him in investigating the murder of Bao Liu, a Chinese mine owner. Bao is but one of the many Chinese who have moved to Ghana to exploit, illegally, the country’s rich gold reserves, a practice the government is incapable of stopping, or else unwilling to. Dawson has a number of suspects to question, including Bao’s disgruntled workers, and a local who blames Bao for his son’s death. He gets an ally in a journalist, Akua Helmsley, who suspects government collusion in the environmental damage wrought by the illegal miners. The revelation of the key clue is especially clever, and fans of mysteries that offer a window into another culture will be more than satisfied. Agent: Marly Rusoff, Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

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        March 1, 2016
        Darko Dawson (Murder at Cape Three Points, 2014, etc.) is seconded to Obuasi, far from his home base in Accra, just in time to catch a particularly brutal murder. Dawson should know better than to celebrate his recent promotion to Chief Inspector, which turns out to be just one more reason he'd be the perfect person to send to Ghana's Ashanti region when the ailing local CID chief dies. Scarcely has he formed his first impressions of his inefficient and insubordinate constables and Ata Longdon, his bullying commander, than word comes that mineworker Kudzo Gablah and his crew have discovered the body of Bao Liu, their exacting boss, buried in one of the mines they're working. Bao's brother, Wei Liu, who moves and washes the corpse, ostensibly to avoid shocking new widow Lian Liu, is the obvious suspect, but once he proves an alibi, Dawson must look elsewhere. He finds a powerful motive in Bao's unrequited flirtation with Comfort, the girlfriend of neighboring farmer Amos Okoh, whose brother, Yaw Okoh, swore vengeance after a quarrel between Amos and Bao left the former dead and the latter unpunished. Despite procuring a confession to Bao's murder, Dawson is still dissatisfied. That's just as well, because a Ghanaian task force decides that these private crimes are less important than the corruption introduced to the region by the gold mines illegally owned and operated by Chinese interlopers like the Liu brothers. Dawson finds himself caught between warring factions--not just the good guys and the bad guys, but the good guys and the not-so-good guys. Despite some serious problems with pacing--successive mysteries and solutions seem to pop up and recede at the author's whim--Quartey presents tonic news for Americans who assume that Europeans were the most calamitous force ever to strike Ghana.

        COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      • source: Library Journal
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        November 1, 2015

        The latest entry in the series sees the Ghanaian detective receiving a promotion and an order to move from Accra to a remote, and corrupt, mining area.

        Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • premium: True
      • source: Booklist
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        February 1, 2016
        This is the fourth in Quartey's Inspector Darko Dawson series, set in contemporary Ghana. Dawson, based in the capital city of Accra with a greatly loved wife and family, wants nothing more than to stay in Accra. But a promotion to chief inspector in the Ghana Police Service comes with a stinga reassignment to Obuasi in the Ashanti region, where gold mines scar the land, and illegal mining by foreigners exploits the Ghanaian people. The Chinese manager of one of the gold mines is discovered dead and buried in gold ore. Dawson has to rely heavily on interviewing rather than forensics here, since the victim's family moved the body from the crime scene and washed it before any analysis could be done. But Dawson is a formidable interviewer and psychologist. He uncovers another murder, an especially chilling one, performed by the victim shortly before his golden burial. Quartey presents a good-hearted policeman in a noir world of exploitation and corruption. Fans of this series will also want to check out Malla Nunn's South African mysteries.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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        April 1, 2016

        Darko Dawson has been promoted to chief inspector, but no sooner than his promotion is final, he is transferred from comfortable Accra, Ghana, out to remote Obuasi in the Ashanti region. The day after Dawson arrives, the body of a Chinese gold miner is found in his own quarry. Illegal gold mining is a dangerous occupation, but too much money makes it hard to say no. The fourth series entry (after Murder at Cape Three Points) is a solid addition to promote diversity in mystery collections.

        Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • premium: True
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        Starred review from November 1, 2016

        Ghanaian detective Darko Dawson, in the wake of his successful crime solving in Murders at Cape Three Pointe, has been promoted to Chief Inspector in his fourth outing. But with success comes sacrifice. Darko must move from the capital city of Accra to the remote Ashanti region of Obuasi, where illegal gold mining is a lucrative, exploitative, and, in the case of a dead Chinese miner, deadly crime. Quartey's latest reveals the economic underbelly of world politics. (LJ 4/1/16)

        Copyright 2016 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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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...
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