Selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times Sunday Times Independent Guardian
Observer Financial Times and Irish Times. Waterstones Thriller of the Month
'Lightseekers is the type of detective crime thriller that should be on everyone's shelves'
Dorothy Koomson author of My Other Husband 'A fast-paced thriller that offers insight into
the ever present tensions in a poverty stricken community. An action-packed and spirited debut'
Oyinkan Braithwaite author of My Sister the Serial Killer Winner of the 2019 UEA Crime
Writing Prize Lightseekers is the start of a major new crime series introducing investigative
psychologist Dr Philip Taiwo. When three young students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian
university town their killings - and their killers - are caught on social media. The world
knows who murdered them what no one knows is why. As the legal trial begins investigative
psychologist Philip Taiwo is contacted by the father of one of the boys desperate for some
answers to his son's murder. But Philip is an expert in crowd behaviour and violence not a
detective and after travelling to the sleepy town that bore witness to the horror he soon
feels dramatically out of his depth. Will he finally be able to uncover the truth of what
happened to the Okriki Three? ----------------------- **Philip Taiwo will return in
Gaslight in November 2023 - AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW**
