Chronicle of Four Estates (A Novel) by Benjamin Kwakye (2025)

Ostensibly a murder mystery that crisscrosses Ghana, the US, and China, Chronicles of Four Estates is a thoroughgoing examination of the intersection as well as divergence of politics, business, journalism, and religion in the context of an increasingly interdependent world. A body is found at the Teshie beach in Ghana, stabbed and burned beyond recognition. Indications are that it is Erin Badu, a young, ambitious and successful journalist/musician. Preliminary investigations by the dashing detective, Chloe Cudjoe, point to Yaw Tano an ex-president of Ghana who is running again for president. Haunted by the unsolved murder of her husband several years earlier, Chloe Cudjoe is determined to prove Yaw Tano guilty of murder.