Kwei Quartey, bestselling author of the Inspector Darko Dawson series, has begun a new series set in West Africa this one featuring a female detective. The first title is THE MISSING AMERICAN in a series aimed to please readers of “The Ladies Detective Agency” but with a darker edge. Quartey introduces ex-cop Emma Djan who joins a private investigation agency. Her first case seems to be an ordinary missing person challenge but it soon develops into a dangerous and tangled web of crime, the source of which leads her to the highest levels of the government.