Kwei Quartey. (2014). Murder at Cape Three Points. Soho Press.

Kwei Quartey. 2014. Murder At Cape Three Points. Soho Press.

Kwei Quartey, Murder At Cape Three Points. Soho Press, 2014.

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   • bioText: Kwei Quartey was born in Ghana and raised by a black American mother and a Ghanaian father. A practicing physician, he lives and works in Pasadena. He is the author of four other critically acclaimed novels in the Darko Dawson series: Wife of the Gods, Children of the Street, Murder at Cape Three Points, and Death by His Grace. Find him on Twitter @Kwei_Quartey and on his website, kweiquartey.com.
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“Quartey’s mastery of the art of misdirection serves him well in his third mystery featuring Accra, Ghana, homicide detective Darko Dawson . . . A winner” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
 
A canoe washes up at a Ghanaian offshore oil-rig site. Inside it are the bodies of a prominent, wealthy couple, Charles and Fiona Smith-Aidoo, who have been ritualistically murdered. Pillars in their community, they are mourned by everyone, but especially by their niece Sapphire.
 
When months have passed since the murder and the local police have made no headway in figuring out who committed the gruesome crime, Sapphire is not happy. Det. Inspector Darko Dawson of the Accra police force is sent out to Cape Three Points to investigate. The more he learns about the case, the more convoluted it becomes. Three Points has long been occupied by traditional fishing populations—but real estate entrepreneurs and wealthy oil companies have been trying to bribe the indigenous inhabitants to move out. Soon, Dawson unearths a host of motives for murder, ranging from personal vendettas to corporate conspiracies . . .
 
 

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   • 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."
3. • premium: False
   • source: Daily Mail (UK)
   • content: "Offers a more contemporary portrait of corporate greed on the continent than McCall Smith's gentle portrait of rural crime."
4. • premium: False
   • source: Scott Montgomery, Book People Bookstore, Austin, TX
   • content: "In the context of a world still working on cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and where oil companies' main hope of expansion comes from high-risk deep water drilling, Quartey's message could not be more timely."
5. • premium: False
   • source: Janice Hunsche, Kaleidosaurus Books, Fishers, IN
   • content: "Quartey portrays a the country of Ghana with all its charms and quirks, a culture that stands at the brink of the modern world, yet has not lost its tribal traditions. The result is a thoroughly fascinatng book."
6. • premium: False
   • source: Booklist
   • content: "[Inspector Darko Dawson plunges] into a case involving corporations, community rivalries, and far-reaching family vendettas involving black magic. Absorbing for history, contemporary upheavals, plotting, and Dawson's personality."
7. • premium: False
   • 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."
8. • premium: False
   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "Fans of Alexander McCall Smith's "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series will enjoy the African setting and the large cast of interesting characters, while the twists and turns of Quartey's plotting will satisfy any choosy mystery fan."
9. • premium: False
   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "Darko Dawson's third case is his biggest and most ambitious yet ... Quartey lays out what feel like endless possibilities with exemplary patience and clarity, unveiling world beneath world in Dawson's Ghana."
10. • premium: False
    • source: Kittling Books
    • content: "Kwei Quartey writes incredibly well about Ghana, about crime, and about the people he has created. If you're an armchair traveling sleuth like I am, I advise you to add him to your list of must-reads."
11. • premium: False
    • source: Kingdom Books
    • content: "I particularly appreciate being able to travel there [Ghana] in this way, through the eyes of an author who experiences multiple cultures, and a police officer who has reason to challenge his environment."
12. • premium: False
    • source: Anne Perry
    • content: "A sensitive novel of powerful family passions, set in the unique and vivid colors of Ghana."
13. • premium: False
    • source: Michael Connelly
    • content: "Kwei Quartey does what all the best storytellers do. He takes you to a world you have never seen and makes it as real to you as your own backyard. Inspector Darko Dawson is relentless and I look forward to riding with him again."
14. • premium: False
    • source: Los Angeles Times
    • content: "An absolute gem of a first novel and the sort of book that will delight not only hard-core mystery fans, but also those who visit the genre only casually in search of an occasional literary entertainment.... Wife of the Gods undoubtedly will be compared with Alexander McCall Smith's phenomenally successful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, but Quartey's debut is--to this reader, at least--a far richer and more sophisticated experience."
15. • premium: False
    • source: Booklist, Starred Review
    • content: "[A] crisp, engrossing debut.... [Quartey] renders a compelling cast of characters inhabiting a world precariously perched between old and new. Fans of McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels will relish the opportunity to discover yet another intriguing area of Africa."
16. • premium: False
    • source: Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
    • content: "Quartey convincingly portrays the seedy underbelly of Accra, Ghana's capital city.... Quartey cleverly hides the culprit, but the whodunit's strength is as much in the depiction of a world largely unfamiliar to an American readership as in its playing fair."
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      Starred review from January 27, 2014
      Quartey’s mastery of the art of misdirection serves him well in his third mystery featuring Accra, Ghana, homicide detective Darko Dawson (after 2011’s Children of the Street). At dawn one morning in the Gulf of Guinea, a crane operator on an oil rig spots a drifting canoe. In the canoe are the bodies of Charles and Fiona Smith-Aidoo, who have both been shot, but the murderer has also beheaded the husband, scooped out an eye, and displayed the head on a pole. When the investigation stalls, Dawson gets on the case after the Smith-Aidoos’ niece, Sapphire, a physician, petitions headquarters for a fresh look. Despite the Smith-Aidoos’ prominence—Charles was corporate-relations director for the oil company near whose rig the corpses were found, and Fiona was the first female director of the local assembly—there’s no shortage of those who wish them ill, including a man who blames the couple for indirectly causing his daughter’s death. 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. Agent: Marly Rusoff, Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

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      February 15, 2014
      In Ghana, Accra DI Darko Dawson's third case--the murder of an oil executive and his equally prominent wife--is his biggest and most ambitious yet. Charles or Fiona Smith-Aidoo must have made someone very angry indeed, for they were both bound and shot before Charles was beheaded, his eye cut out and the pair of them set adrift in a canoe that soon reached an oil rig where their beloved niece, Dr. Sapphire Smith-Aidoo, was on hand to see their bodies discovered. Superintendent David Hammond, the regional crime officer in charge of Sekondi HQ, has made no progress in the four months since. So Chief Superintendent Lartey dispatches Dawson to assist him. The new investigator--whose presence in Accra is sorely missed by his wife, Christine, and their son, Hosiah, who's just recovering from life-saving heart surgery--doesn't exactly get a hero's welcome upon his arrival. Even more daunting, the murders could be rooted in any number of motives. Charles' job at Malgam Oil brought him close to some highly sensitive officials and issues. Kwesi DeSouza, the rival Fiona defeated for political office, was clearly resentful of her victory. The Smith-Aidoos' family tree has tangled roots, and Charles' refusal to help secure medical aid for his cousin Jason Sarbah's dying daughter, Angela, deepened the rift between them. And the murders may be linked to the earlier execution of Goilco CEO Lawrence Tetteh or to tribal traditions that demand ritual sacrifice. All in all, it doesn't look as if Dawson will be getting back to Accra any time soon. The windup may not be as satisfying as the complications, but Quartey (Death at the Voyager Hotel, 2013, etc.) lays out what feel like endless possibilities with exemplary patience and clarity, unveiling world beneath world in Dawson's Ghana.

      COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

19. • premium: True
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      March 15, 2014
      Quartey's third Detective Inspector Darko Dawson mystery (following Children of the Street, 2011) is about disruption. Ghana, where Dawson serves in the Criminal Investigations Division, was long known as the Gold Coast under British rule. Here, the Brits are still milking Ghana, this time for oil, trying to buy off the fishers around coastal Cape Three Points for their now-valuable land. The disruption gains a powerful symbol when the bodies of a wealthy middle-age couple are found in a canoe near an oil rig. The incentive for Dawson to travel from Accra to Cape Three Points comes when the couple's niece, who happened to be working as a medic onboard the oil rig, complains that the regional police haven't advanced the case for four months. Dawson must leave his family (with his son just recovering from heart surgery) and plunge into a case involving corporations, community rivalries, and far-reaching family vendettas involving black magic. Absorbing for history, contemporary upheavals, plotting, and Dawson's personality.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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