When a popular fashion designer Lady Araba turns up dead the morning of her show at Accra Fashion Week, the fashion world is shaken — and so is that of her family, as well as the staff working in her tony, high-security neighborhood. When the police arrest Araba's driver on scanty evidence and a forced confession, Araba's aunt decides to hire a private investigation firm to track down the real murderer, who she suspects is Araba's alcoholic and womanizing boyfriend. But as the detectives at Sowah Investigations start to dig into Lady Araba's life, they find that, as popular as she was, there are plenty of people who wanted the designer dead and it's just a matter of figuring out which one acted on that desire.
This is a fairly straightforward mix of private eye and police procedural mysteries, well told and spooled out. What I particularly enjoyed about this was the view into the workings of Ghana's politics, police work, and criminal justice system, all of which were quite literally foreign to me. Also, as the second book in the series, it stands alone quite well, though it does make me want to read the first one.
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