Divya Manian reviewed Gaslight by Femi Kayode (Philip Taiwo, #2)
Pretty good Nigerian action-oriented mystery
3 stars
The story is about a SFPD (lol) police psychologist who moves back to Nigeria after a racist encounter with the US police and starts helping his sister try to find out who is trying to frame the mega church pastor there. During the course of this we encounter colorism, outsized influence of church & rampant corruption. The book was really un-putdownable and I had to turn the pages to finish it.
I am deducting two stars for showing police as having a "few good apples" and ending too neatly with politicians & the criminal behind bars thanks to vigorous police. I also didnt like how the only Nigerian character with muslim name has a "funny" way of pronouncing words in English and how the lower class people language is shown to be pidgin and not in a respectful way.