Cold Chop

The car looked modern. Even under the dim streetlamps, the paintwork was shiny. She steeled herself and approached, and saw something that made her feel sick to her stomach: a dent on the bonnet. This was the car that killed her sister.

Ghana, 1966... a time of coup plots and Cold War geopolitics. A young woman is killed by a hit-and-run driver. The police dont get involved, and its left to others to seek justice.

Fifty years later ... amid a scramble to exploit Africas renewable energy potential, an engineer is found dead - electrocuted. The police say its an accident. His daughter says he was being threatened by a company that wants his land. The two victims are related. Somehow, it seems, their deaths are too.

Cold Chop is the third novel chronicling The Investigations of Patrice Le Congo, a series of crime stories from Africa with a global dimension.