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‘The perfectly named Inspector Gloria – for she is glorious indeed – is up

against it in her fourth outing, The Fruit of the Sassywood Tree, chasing down a

child-killer, in an Ebola outbreak, with a tightening curfew and the threat of

total lockdown at her heels. The chaos and corruption in the city and the grit

and goodness of Gloria and her team make for a pacy and satisfying thrill of

a read. I loved it.

- - Catriona McPherson, multi-award-winning author of The Dead Room

‘Gloria found herself face to face with the victim and had one of

those moments of revulsion and anger that aff ected them all when

they looked murder straight in the face. The bulging eyes seemed

to look at her reproachfully, as if asking on behalf of Liberia’s

children, Why? Why were children still so often the victims and the

scapegoats for the anger and resentment and jealousy that seemed

to bubble so ferociously under the thin veneer of everyday life?’

Liberia had been enjoying a time of peace but that looks like it’s

running out. Rumours of an Ebola pandemic are swirling around the

capital, people are beginning to panic and children are once again

being targeted and killed. Inspector Gloria and her team are stretched to the limit as

they race to stop the killings as long-buried secrets from the civil war begin to

surface.

Praise for the first Inspector Gloria mystery, A Lone Star Weeps:

A dark and compelling crime mystery with a brilliantly fresh main character…

a wonderfully tense and suspenseful read.

—-Diane Setterfi eld, author of The Thirteenth Tale and Bellman and Black

THE AUTHOR

Joseph Glackin, a native of North Lanarkshire, is the author of the

Inspector Gloria mysteries. Gloria and the stories are inspired by

Joseph’s twelve years of living and working in Liberia before during

and after the civil war. As well as crime and confusion, his books portray

the warmth, humour and resilience for which Liberians are justly famous.

Joseph has also worked in South Sudan, South Africa, Rwanda, Romania,

Sierra Leone and Bulgaria – places Inspector Gloria may well have cause

to visit at some point in the future.