2.5 stars rounded down because of (duh) misogyny.

This had so much potential. Our fair narrator has a bit of an arrogant old boy vibe about him and I was feeling ok about it, because the book appeared to be about the struggle of rural African women in the context of a crime novel and he’ll probably have an awakening of some kind. Well, about half way through he had an awakening alright...in his pants! There was all of a sudden weird and gratuitous objectification of women and, natch, a woman went crazy out of jealousy over a mediocre man and murdered several people, including her own sister. Ugh, old trope new continent.