![]() ![]() Following his release, his mother moved the family to New York. After his father’s death from cancer, Quartey - then a student activist - was briefly jailed for sedition after being caught putting up posters attacking the country’s military government. The son of an African- American mother and Ghanaian father, the author was born and raised in his father’s country, where both parents were university lecturers. ![]() It will delight both hard-core mystery fans and those who visit the genre only occasionally. Kwei Quartey’s first novel - “Wife of the Gods: An Inspector Darko Dawson Mystery” - has all those qualities in abundance. Top-drawer detective fiction is forged of equal parts plot, character and an interesting setting evoked in such a way that it, too, becomes a narrative presence. ![]()
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