Kwei Quartey’s CHILDREN OF THE STREET, the second Detective Inspector Darko Dawson mystery set in Ghana, in which the discovery of a corpse plunges Darko into the brutal environment of Accra’s largest slum, a dog-eat-dog underground economy in where street children fight for survival, and a series of shocking murders begin to resemble ritual killings, to Jennifer Smith at Random House in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
