The Gambian Dilemma

Detective Inspector Elspeth Sanderson returns to The Gambia to interrogate a gigolo, Demba Jawara. He is suspected of murdering his widowed benefactress, who had taken him to England. Elspeth enjoys a highly sexual reunion with Detective Inspector Bouba Sidibeh, with whom she had previously investigated a brutal killing in The Gambia. As a result, she is convinced that she has conceived his child. But their reunion reveals a side of her lover that she had not suspected and which she finds great difficulty in accepting. On her return to England, Elspeth concentrates the team’s focus on the victim’s somewhat dysfunctional family, all of whom appear to have strong motives for her murder. The investigations reveal a hornet’s nest of sexual goings-on and intrigue and the finger of suspicion points in turn at each member of the family until the culprit is finally identified. Case solved, Elspeth turns to addressing her own future in England or in The Gambia, with or without her unborn baby’s father.