(read advance review copy) One of the things I love about Kwei Quartey's Emma Djan series is the slice of life in Ghana that they show. This one takes that up a notch (perhaps one notch too high). There's a lot less of Emma's personal life in this one, and lot more of the life of the victims and suspects. At some times, this background threatened to overwhelm the storytelling. But it did wrap up in a satisfactory way.