Kayode, Femi – The Bell Bookshop

Gaslight

Emma — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

‘Outstanding’ Nadine Matheson ‘Riveting’ Harriet Tyce ‘Brilliant’ Janice Hallett‘We know you know. Talk and you’re next.’Bishop Jeremiah Dawodu, pastor of a Nigerian megachurch, has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Folasade, the ‘First Lady’ of the church. The arrest was public, humiliating and sensational – sending shockwaves through Lagos – but throughout it all, Bishop Dawodu maintains his innocence.Philip Taiwo, an acclaimed investigative psychologist, is asked by his sister, a member of the church’s congregation, to clear the pastor’s name. With no actual body, it looks to be a simple case and despite Philip’s dislike of organised religion, he agrees to take it on as a favour to his sister. Then the First Lady’s body is found in a nearby lake just as Philip’s beloved family come under attack from someone warning him off the case, and he realises that nothing to do with this investigation will be straightforward.Was it murder or suicide? Is someone framing the Bishop or the First Lady?Gaslight is the sensational follow up to Femi Kayode’s acclaimed debut, Lightseekers, picked as a Book of the Month by the Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times

Lightseekers

Emma — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Waterstones Thriller of the Month‘Lightseekers is ripe with all the twists and turns you could hope for… 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 KillerSelected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times.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?