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Tamar Myers

Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey

Welcome to Ghana, Mystery Lovers: Kwei Quartey’s Wife of the Gods

By Peggy Ehrhart

August 13, 2011

In Kwei Quartey’s Wife of the Gods, Ghanaian police inspector Darko Dawson observes a village ceremony: “As Dawson watched and listened, he saw in action the Ewe people’s long-held fame for the drumming tradition . . . unmatched by anything [he] had seen before.” I’ve seen the Ewe people’s drumming tradition in action too.  In…

Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb

Titles that Beg To Be Picked Up

By Cindy Harkness

August 4, 2011

Do you ever get bookstore whiplash? You’re walking casually down the aisle, scanning the titles, when you stop dead in your tracks and whip your head around, thinking, Did I really just see that? Or possibly just What the…? After all, it’s the combination of the title and cover art that attracts the casual browser…

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