Murder at Cape Three Points

This third mystery featuring Ghanaian police detective Darko Dawson (after Children of the Street) opens with a canoe carrying two murdered bodies drifting up to one of the new oil rigs off the southwestern coast of Ghana. Dawson is sent from the capital of Accra to investigate the deaths of this prominent couple: the husband worked for the oil company and the wife was a local politician. Dawson quickly discovers two probable motives: one involving long-held family secrets and resentments and the other of possible government corruption. With plenty of help from his able assistant Chikata (who also happens to be his boss's nephew), Dawson begins to unravel both the private and public mysteries surrounding this shocking crime. The trail moves from the boardrooms of multinational corporations to small fishing villages, from beleaguered environmental activists to traditional juju practitioners.