This is the first novel in the Darko Dawson Mystery series. Set in Ghana, it focuses on Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, something of a rebel in the police department. Because of his familiarity with the local language, he is sent to the town of Ketanu to investigate death of a young woman. His status as an outsider makes him unwelcome, but he sticks it out, even when he is forced to deal with memories of his past and the family he left behind so many years ago. What he finds is disturbing tradition of offering teenage girls to fetish priests as trokosi, or Wives of the Gods. Show less