Publisher: Get Real Books, UK
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 don’t get involved, and it’s left to others to seek justice.
Fifty years later … amid a scramble to exploit Africa’s renewable energy potential, an engineer is found dead – electrocuted. The police say it’s 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.
£22.00
About the author
Before turning to fiction, Peter Lewenstein was a journalist, beginning his career in print, moving on to the BBC World Service. There he worked as an editor and producer in the Newsroom and then for Network Africa and Focus on Africa. He has travelled widely across Africa, reporting on elections, war and everyday life. When not writing, he enjoys walking in Brockwell Park, near his home in South London, or going to watch his beloved football team, Queen’s Park Rangers. He is married and has two daughters. He is a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors.