A review by liberrydude
Children of the Street: An Inspector Darko Dawson Mystery by Kwei Quartey

4.0

My first read of this series and it's book two and I'm hooked for life. Darko Dawson is a cop who spends his own money trying to solve the case. He has a lovely wife and a weakness for weed that could be his undoing. He also has a young son with a hole in his heart who needs surgery soon. Plus he has his boss' nephew working for him. Good plot lines take you into Africa. Good vivid descriptions that show people persevering in the midst of poverty without generating sympathy or pity. Darko is a good person with good instincts and you want him desperately to succeed in finding who is killing some of the "worthless" street children in Ghana's capital, Accra. Definitely reading the first one and the third one set on oil rigs off Ghana's coast is coming out in 2012.