Lightseekers
'Intelligent, Suspenseful and Utterly Engrossing' Will Dean
1st Edition
Published on 4. February 2021
432 pages
978-1-5266-1756-9 (ISBN)
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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**Philip Taiwo returns in Gaslight - AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW**
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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**Philip Taiwo returns in Gaslight - AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW**
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-1756-9 (9781526617569)
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Person
Femi Kayode trained as a clinical psychologist in Nigeria, before starting a career in advertising. He has created and written several prime-time TV shows. He recently graduated with a distinction from the UEA Creative Writing programme and is currently a PhD candidate at Bath Spa University. He lives in Windhoek, Namibia with his wife and two sons.
Content
- Cover
- Act One
- the why, not the what
- check
- first contact
- the sins of fathers
- red-hot arrival
- the welcome party
- enter the darkness
- poor, unfortunate souls
- police is your friend
- ghost road
- Madam Landlady
- small town, fast news
- a son of the soil
- boxfuls of nothing
- the power of one
- the narrative
- at owner's risk
- the most hated boy on campus
- one plus one equals three
- a brewing storm
- midnight call
- Act Two
- a disturbing view
- murder, she saw
- wetin you carry?
- a man of the people
- backtrack
- the cult of distinguished gentlemen
- a tribe apart
- breakthrough
- finger of suspicion
- na me kill them?
- fight or flight
- a lady of influence
- an expected accident
- Act Three
- the origin of burn
- smoke
- a surprise defence
- confirmations and revelations
- a curious exchange
- little white lies
- turning tables
- higher powers
- attack of the damned
- Act Four
- air
- rude awakening
- an unforeseen kindness
- reunions
- confessions of an assassin
- pillow talk
- tmi
- same, not same
- a source of mischief
- gun gone
- rush
- letting go
- mercy, mercy
- arrow of wrath
- raging fire
- mayhem
- aftermath
- getting to why
- home
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Type
