This book has been on my "to read" list for awhile, so when I saw it recommended by several readers on the 2016 Book Riot Read Harder challenge thread for the "Read the first book in a series by a person of color" category, I decided to make it my pick. This is the first book in a mystery series set in Ghana featuring Detective Darko Dawson. I often gravitate to international mystery series and plan to add this one to my "to read" list based on the excellent first offering. In the initial installment, readers are introduced to Dawson, who is an Accra-based married police detective with a young son. While Dawson is a skilled detective, he sometimes lets his emotions get the better of him, making him more human and relatable. I liked the details of life in the capital and more rural areas that factored into the story, as well as the likable characters who I look forward to getting to know better. I found the story's pacing to be very well-done and felt that the murder mystery bore the hallmarks of a fair-play, traditional mystery. Dawson's personal life enriched the story and made me want to read more about him and his family, as well as join him on future cases. While I had originally picked another book for this Read Harder category and will likely still read it, I'm glad that I went with the recommendations I read and now see why it kept showing up on my personalized Goodreads Recommendations list.