Lightseekers. Femi Kayode. Raven Books, £14.99, pp432. Femi Kayode's debut opens with a truly horrific mob killing. Three students are accused of robbery and then murdered in a Nigerian ...
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When I first read Lightseekers — Femi Kayode's debut novel, which won the 2019 UEA Crime Writing prize — I thought I had mistaken the crime thriller for a horror novel, as the prologue details a public execution preceded by gruesome forms of torture and violence that are definitely not for the faint-hearted. The brutality and savagery depicted, with blood and gore aplenty, involved a ...
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Femi Kayode. 3.73. 2,650 ratings480 reviews. A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students in this "original and fast-paced thriller" (Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy ). When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to ...
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Ultimately Lightseekers is an impressive debut that demonstrates a deft hand with character and plot that Kayode should be proud of. It's perhaps a little presumptuous to place the mantle of an entire character on his first story - after all, seldom are fictional detectives made in their first outings but in the ones that come after - but ...
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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 ...
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Winner of the 2019 UEA Crime Writing Prize, Lightseekers is the start of a major new crime series introducing investigative psychologist Dr Philip Taiwo. '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.
Lightseekers by Femi Kayode
Description. A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students in this "original and fast-paced thriller" (Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy). When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to investigate the public torture and murder ...
Lightseekers (A Philip Taiwo Mystery, 1)
Amazon.com: Lightseekers (A Philip Taiwo Mystery, 1): 9780316536615: Kayode, Femi: Books ... ― Sarah Lyall, New York Times Book Review " Lightseekers is ripe with all the twists and turns you could hope for and Philip Taiwo is exactly the type of person you'd want investigating misdeeds and revealing complicated truths. A fast-paced ...
Lightseekers (A Philip Taiwo Mystery, 1)
"Lightseekers" by Femi Kayode, Mulholland Books, 432 pages, March 2, 2021. Dr. Philip Taiwo, a psychologist, is hired by Emeka Nwanadi, a Nigerian banker, to investigate the mob killing of his son and two other university students in Okriki, a small town near Port Harcourt.
Lightseekers: 'Intelligent, suspenseful and utterly engrossing' Will
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 ...
Lightseekers by Femi Kayode
Selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times. 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 ...
Lightseekers: 'Intelligent, suspenseful and utterly engrossing' Will
He has created and written several prime-time TV shows. His debut novel, Lightseekers, was selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times, was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. He lives in Windhoek ...
Lightseekers: 'Intelligent, suspenseful and utterly engrossing' Will
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 ...
Lightseekers by Femi Kayode
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 ...
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Year of Publication: 2021. Reviewer: Bassey Bassey. The book, Light Seekers, is a fictional retelling of the sad incident of ALUU 4, where four young men were burned at the stake in Port Harcourt some years back. The story starts with the brutal murder of there young men stripped to nothing, beaten and left to burn in a fiery furnace.
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The event that sets off Lightseekers is a triple murder of uni students at the hands of a mob, but it's before the novel opens, and it's mostly offstage. Instead, we see the protagonist's reaction to the video of the murder of the Okriki Three. Just as Philip Taiwo is revolted and motivated to find the truth, so was I.
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"Lightseekers" by Femi Kayode, Mulholland Books, 432 pages, March 2, 2021. Dr. Philip Taiwo, a psychologist, is hired by Emeka Nwanadi, a Nigerian banker, to investigate the mob killing of his son and two other university students in Okriki, a small town near Port Harcourt.
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Lightseekers. Femi Kayode. Raven Books, £14.99, pp432. Femi Kayode's debut opens with a truly horrific mob killing. Three students are accused of robbery and then murdered in a Nigerian ...
When I first read Lightseekers — Femi Kayode's debut novel, which won the 2019 UEA Crime Writing prize — I thought I had mistaken the crime thriller for a horror novel, as the prologue details a public execution preceded by gruesome forms of torture and violence that are definitely not for the faint-hearted. The brutality and savagery depicted, with blood and gore aplenty, involved a ...
Femi Kayode. 3.73. 2,650 ratings480 reviews. A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students in this "original and fast-paced thriller" (Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy ). When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to ...
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, told in Hallett's trademark mix of emails, texts and transcriptions, digs into the old case of a cult whose members all took their own lives 18 years ...
Ultimately Lightseekers is an impressive debut that demonstrates a deft hand with character and plot that Kayode should be proud of. It's perhaps a little presumptuous to place the mantle of an entire character on his first story - after all, seldom are fictional detectives made in their first outings but in the ones that come after - but ...
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 ...
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 Killer Selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent ...
Winner of the 2019 UEA Crime Writing Prize, Lightseekers is the start of a major new crime series introducing investigative psychologist Dr Philip Taiwo. '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.
Description. A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students in this "original and fast-paced thriller" (Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy). When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to investigate the public torture and murder ...
Amazon.com: Lightseekers (A Philip Taiwo Mystery, 1): 9780316536615: Kayode, Femi: Books ... ― Sarah Lyall, New York Times Book Review " Lightseekers is ripe with all the twists and turns you could hope for and Philip Taiwo is exactly the type of person you'd want investigating misdeeds and revealing complicated truths. A fast-paced ...
"Lightseekers" by Femi Kayode, Mulholland Books, 432 pages, March 2, 2021. Dr. Philip Taiwo, a psychologist, is hired by Emeka Nwanadi, a Nigerian banker, to investigate the mob killing of his son and two other university students in Okriki, a small town near Port Harcourt.
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 ...
Selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times. 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 ...
He has created and written several prime-time TV shows. His debut novel, Lightseekers, was selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times, was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. He lives in Windhoek ...
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 ...
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 ...
Year of Publication: 2021. Reviewer: Bassey Bassey. The book, Light Seekers, is a fictional retelling of the sad incident of ALUU 4, where four young men were burned at the stake in Port Harcourt some years back. The story starts with the brutal murder of there young men stripped to nothing, beaten and left to burn in a fiery furnace.
The event that sets off Lightseekers is a triple murder of uni students at the hands of a mob, but it's before the novel opens, and it's mostly offstage. Instead, we see the protagonist's reaction to the video of the murder of the Okriki Three. Just as Philip Taiwo is revolted and motivated to find the truth, so was I.
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All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld review - bracing and brilliant essay collection. The iconoclastic US author's intellectually poised critique of minimalism boasts scintillating ...
Lightseekers (A Philip Taiwo Mystery Book 1) - Kindle edition by Kayode, Femi. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Lightseekers (A Philip Taiwo Mystery Book 1). ... There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again ...
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"Lightseekers" by Femi Kayode, Mulholland Books, 432 pages, March 2, 2021. Dr. Philip Taiwo, a psychologist, is hired by Emeka Nwanadi, a Nigerian banker, to investigate the mob killing of his son and two other university students in Okriki, a small town near Port Harcourt.