Kwei Jones Quartey

Kwei Jones Quartey is a Ghanaian–American detective fiction novelist and retired physician.

Quotes

Wife of the Gods: An Inspector Darko Dawson Mystery (2009)

• I understand what you mean, Inspector. I got up early this morning-I couldn't sleep anyway-and I went to Bedome to check. Everyone told me yes, that Gladys had been there yesterday and she had left some time before sunset to go back to Ketanu.
  • Chapter 1

• Bad news spreads through any small town like fire through dry savanna bush.
  • Chapter 3

• All the women seemed to be doing something – sweeping or carrying water in large bowls on their heads – but there was a good supply of men sitting languidly around doing nothing in the “life is boring” kind of way, not the “life is good.
  • p. 143

• ....would never do anything to hurt her.
  • p. 202