Review: Sleep Well, My Lady (Emma Djan Investigation #2)
Sleep Well, My Lady by Kwei Quartey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Kwei Quartey's second installment in the Emma Djan Investigation series treats us to more insights into Ghanaian society, including the upper echelons of it, and yet more questionable policing. This novel centers on the murder of fashion designer and influencer Lady Araba, a beautiful and self-made woman who has overcome a fairly awful childhood at the hands of her Anglican minister father. Quartey paints a rich and detailed back story cutting back and forth over time, to Araba's childhood abuse, to her fashion success, her close relationship with her aunt, and her relationship with the very questionable Augustus Seeza, a popular talk show host with a hard-hitting program called "Tough Questions." Seeza is from a powerful family in Accra; his father is a prominent judge and his mother is a doctor. But Seeza is a very problematic boyfriend- he's married and on top of that, he is a serious alcoholic. When Araba is murdered, her chauffer is charged, but her Aunt Dele doesn't for a minute believe that Kweku-Sam is the culprit. It's only a matter of time until Dele contacts the Sowah Private Investigators Agency and Emma Djan is on the case!
I love the character of Emma Djan and was somewhat surprised that she didn't appear in the novel until page 61! That did however allow the reader to develop a sympathetic sense of Araba's life, and her relationship with the troubled and self-destructive Augustus, who is Dele's prime suspect in Araba's murder. Only were there others who might have wanted Araba out of the way?
This was another engaging installment in the Emma Djan series. I love her shrewd tenacity. The ending, as in the first novel, shows that things are seldom linear when it comes to crimes of this nature. This novel can still be read as an entry point into the series, though the reader will certainly then want to learn about how Emma became a PI in the first place, in the first novel, The Missing American. This series is really a great find.
I'll report back about the audiobook when it is released.
I received a digital and paper review copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Kwei Quartey's second installment in the Emma Djan Investigation series treats us to more insights into Ghanaian society, including the upper echelons of it, and yet more questionable policing. This novel centers on the murder of fashion designer and influencer Lady Araba, a beautiful and self-made woman who has overcome a fairly awful childhood at the hands of her Anglican minister father. Quartey paints a rich and detailed back story cutting back and forth over time, to Araba's childhood abuse, to her fashion success, her close relationship with her aunt, and her relationship with the very questionable Augustus Seeza, a popular talk show host with a hard-hitting program called "Tough Questions." Seeza is from a powerful family in Accra; his father is a prominent judge and his mother is a doctor. But Seeza is a very problematic boyfriend- he's married and on top of that, he is a serious alcoholic. When Araba is murdered, her chauffer is charged, but her Aunt Dele doesn't for a minute believe that Kweku-Sam is the culprit. It's only a matter of time until Dele contacts the Sowah Private Investigators Agency and Emma Djan is on the case!
I love the character of Emma Djan and was somewhat surprised that she didn't appear in the novel until page 61! That did however allow the reader to develop a sympathetic sense of Araba's life, and her relationship with the troubled and self-destructive Augustus, who is Dele's prime suspect in Araba's murder. Only were there others who might have wanted Araba out of the way?
This was another engaging installment in the Emma Djan series. I love her shrewd tenacity. The ending, as in the first novel, shows that things are seldom linear when it comes to crimes of this nature. This novel can still be read as an entry point into the series, though the reader will certainly then want to learn about how Emma became a PI in the first place, in the first novel, The Missing American. This series is really a great find.
I'll report back about the audiobook when it is released.
CW: child sexual abuse
I received a digital and paper review copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.
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