Welcome to Litsy!

I read a number of 5-star books in January, including all 3 books in this series at the time (I‘ve since read the 4th book that was published this year), which were all 5-stars. So I‘ll give the top January book to the first in the series. So good. #12booksof2024 @Andrew65

#readingbracket2024

#tlt #threeforthursday Thanks @Read4life for the tag!

1) Emma Djan from the tagged series
2) Precious from the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
3) Steele from the Glass and Steele series

Some marvelous ladies!!

In #Ghana, getting an education doesn‘t promise a successful life but being a sakawa boy does. They answer to fetish priests who bestow magical powers on the sakawa boys in return for ghoulish tasks they perform for the priests. Sakawa boys run sophisticated internet scams on Americans. In this story, an American falls in love with a realistic woman, gives her money for an emergency, and travels to meet her. When he learns she doesn‘t exist he ⬇️

I just finished this book and HOLY SMOKES is it ever good!! I‘ll have to think on how to write the review of such a complex murder mystery set in #Ghana, but I‘m pretty sure I‘ll line up to read every book in this series. Fortunately there are two more books at this point. And there‘s another detective series about Inspector Darko Dawson also set in Ghana by the same author.

Review to come.

#foodandlit @Catsandbooks

It always feels appropriate when a #foodandlit book that‘s not about food still mentions food. I looked up kenkey. It‘s made from fermented white corn. #Ghana @Catsandbooks

https://www.196flavors.com/ghana-kenkey/

I arrived early for my 3 pm massage. Nothing like a little self-care.

This is my Friday night party

#Ghana #foodandlit @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

My nightly hot chocolate and my book. The book is really really good! The mug is from the Library of Congress, a gift to my husband in 1998 when I clerked at a law firm in DC.

#Ghana #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

Technically it‘s all my ebooks. But IRL, it‘s the tagged book. Fortunately it‘s pretty interesting so far.

I‘d love to hear what book is closest to you right now.