Gold of Our Fathers

Name: Gold of Our Fathers
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Kwei Quartey
ISBN: 9781501904684

Author: Kwei Quartey

Series: Inspector Darko Dawson Mysteries #4

Narrator: Corey Allen

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/26/2016

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, African American & Black Fiction

Synopsis

Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service, but he doesn't have long to celebrate, because he's being transferred for at least a year to remote Obuasi, an area notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. When the murder of a Chinese immigrant miner crosses his desk on only his second day, Dawson learns how dangerous it is to pursue justice in a town where the worst offenders have so much money they have no fear of the law.

About Kwei Quartey

Kwei Quartey was raised in Ghana by an African American mother and a Ghanaian father, both of whom were university lecturers. He writes early in the morning before setting out to work at HealthCare Partners, where he runs a wound care clinic and is the lead physician at an urgent care center. He lives in Pasadena and is currently working on his next novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Skip

Darko Dawson has been promoted to Chief Inspector, but is reassigned from urban Accra in Ghana to a rural Obusai in the Ashanti region. He finds a backward police department, but is immediately dispatched to investigate the murder of a Chinese national running one of the many illegal gold mines ther......more

Goodreads review by Filip

I think this is my favourite book by this author (of the three I have read). While I do enjoy plot twists in a murder mystery, this one has a bit too many dead ends, where the story seems to be resolved only to turn out to be anything but. Still it was quite entertaining and the solution itself was......more

Goodreads review by Readers

I keep telling you about Kwei Quartey's books. They have a special place in my heart......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

3.5 stars. Didn't like it as well as the previous Darko Dawson books. A little too much wandering around without any real vision of the crime and the connections between the myriad of suspects.......more