Cold Chop

<p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Cold Chop is the third novel chronicling The Investigations of Patrice Le Congo a series of crime stories from Africa with a global dimension.</p><p></p><p></p>