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Lightseekers
'Intelligent, suspenseful and utterly engrossing' Will Dean
Lightseekers
'Intelligent, suspenseful and utterly engrossing' Will Dean
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Description
Selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times.
Chosen as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month
'Lightseekers is the type of detective crime thriller that should be on everyone's shelves' Dorothy Koomson, author of My Other Husband
'A fast-paced thriller that offers insight into the ever present tensions in a poverty stricken community. An action-packed and spirited debut' Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer
Winner of the 2019 UEA Crime Writing Prize, Lightseekers is the start of a major new crime series introducing investigative psychologist Dr Philip Taiwo.
When three young students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian university town, their killings - and their killers - are caught on social media. The world knows who murdered them; what no one knows is why.
As the legal trial begins, investigative psychologist Philip Taiwo is contacted by the father of one of the boys, desperate for some answers to his son's murder. But Philip is an expert in crowd behaviour and violence, not a detective, and after travelling to the sleepy town that bore witness to the horror, he soon feels dramatically out of his depth.
Will he finally be able to uncover the truth of what happened to the Okriki Three?
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Product details
| Published | 04 Feb 2021 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 432 |
| ISBN | 9781526617569 |
| Imprint | Raven Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A superb novel – so inventive and so well done. It's just brilliant
Harriet Tyce
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Gripping, beautifully written and unlike anything else you'll read
William Ryan
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Kayode uses this space to highlight aspects of his country, from the pervasive potency of religion to college fraternities that have morphed into criminal gangs. All are filtered through the sceptical, baffled perspective of his likeable sleuth
Sunday Times
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What a sensational debut. Confident, beautifully-paced writing. Dr Philip Taiwo is a protagonist I want to meet again, and the setting is so well-drawn. Intelligent, suspenseful and utterly engrossing
Will Dean
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Thrillingly good. Femi Kayode takes crime fiction – very literally – to new places ... Told from the perspective of a returning expatriate, Lightseekers takes us deep into the rich complexities of contemporary Nigeria
William Shaw
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An original and fast-paced thriller that masterfully explores the smoldering historical tensions underpinning modern-day Nigeria, the role of social media, and the complexities of family, friendship and belonging
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