The Boy Who Stole the Leopard's Spots — Tamar Myers

Like Alexander McCall Smith's ever-popular No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels, "The Boy Who Stole the Leopard's Spots" immerses readers in a breathtaking African landscape they simply will not wish to leave. For the third time, author Tamar Myers carries readers a world away from Charleston, South Carolina, and her Den of Antiquity cozy mysteries--circling the globe to the Belgian Congo in equatorial Africa in the 1950s. "The Boy Who Stole the Leopard's Spots" is a wonderfully engrossing, breathtakingly evocative return to the lush locale of her previous acclaimed African-set mysteries, "The Witchdoctor's Wife" and "The Headhunter's Daughter"--as a monsignor of the Catholic church, shamed by a secret event in his past and accused of a terrible crime, must join forces with an American missionary, a police chief, and a witchdoctor and his wise-woman wife to clear his name.