Novel
L'Assassin du Banconi
Not translated into English
Moussa Konaté · 1998
Synopsis
In Bamako, Commissioner Habib and his deputy, Inspector Sosso, of the criminal investigation squad, investigate three cyanide murders committed in the poor district of Banconi. At the same time, counterfeit banknotes are circulating in the city, and a popular riot breaks out. The investigation leads them through the social hierarchies, the castes and the family ties that weigh on everyone.
Context
The novel appeared in 1998 from Le Figuier, in Bamako, the same year as a second investigation by the same commissioner, L'Honneur des Kéita, in which the murder of a marabout leads the police into the bush. Gallimard brought the two narratives together in 2002 in the Série noire, in a volume of three hundred pages, now out of print; the later investigations are published by Fayard. The book has been translated into Italian by Del Vecchio.
Who it is for
A crime novel in French, of about three hundred pages in the volume that collects it with the following investigation.
Prizes and reception
First of the seven volumes in the Commissaire Habib series, reissued in 2012 in a digital crime-fiction collection.
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