Where Shadows Gather

In the sultry hush of a Ghanaian suburb where reality bristles with myth and memory, Police officer Comm Quartey gets entangled in a case that blurs the boundaries between the real and the otherworldly; a web of secrets that begins on the streets of Accra, threads through a hospital ward, and coils deep into the underbelly of political power. Around him, grief wears strange masks: a madman whose words echo truth and secrets; a mother who speaks to her dead husband as if he still sits beside her; a brother who dreams of escape while the countryʼs pulse falters; young pregnant women vanishing without explanation; and neighbours whose laughter hides the scent of rot. In this haunting debut, Agyapong weaves mystery, memory, and the slow violence of a nation at war with itself. Where Shadows Gather is both a portrait of a cityʼs unravelling and a study of the ghosts we carry.