This story deals with racism, domestic violence, social services in
the form of provision of jobs and financial support for the unemployed,
illegal immigration and local politics, and was set in a small British
town. There are two main interlinked sets of plots. The story began with
the disappearance of the daughter of an elite Yoruba-British couple in
the town. The search for Melanie Akande gets to an anticlimax when the
cops mistake the body of another black girl for her, just because this
other girl was black.
When
Melanie is found alive and well (she really didn’t want her folks to
know where she was), the heat now moved to this other dead girl; who was
she and why was she murdered and buried in an unmarked grave? This
second investigation brought the book to a conclusion when it was found
out that the dead girl (Simisola) had been brought into the country
illegally by a wealthy white couple in the town, who abused her sexually
and physically and kept her locked up in their house, practically a
slave. She’d been beat to death when her attempt to escape failed. The
attempt to cover up her death led to the murder of another woman as well
as attempted murder of a third.
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