num_pages: 307
description: FROM BELOVED MYSTERY WRITER TAMAR MYERS COMES AN ENTHRALLING TALE OF DUTY GREED DANGER AND MIRACLES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA.The Congo beckons a young Amanda Brown in 1958 as she follows her missionary calling to the mysterious dark continent far from her South Carolina home. But her enthusiasm cannot cushion her from the shock of a very foreign culturewhere competing missionaries are as plentiful as flies and oppressive European overlords are busy stripping the land of its most valuable resource: diamonds. Little by little Amanda is drawn into the lives of the villagers in tiny Belle Vueand she is touched by the plight of the local witch doctor a man known as Their Death who has been forced to take a second job as a yardman to support his two wives. But when First Wife stumbles upon an impossibly enormous uncut gem events are set in motion that threaten to devastate the lives of these people Amanda has come to admire and loveevents that could lead to nothing less than murder. Richly evocative written with warmth and humor and based on the author's own experiences Tamar Myers's The Witch Doctor's Wife is an unforgettable African journey with a spellbinding mystery at its heart.
language: English
title: The Witch Doctor's Wife
publisher: Avon (an imprint of) HarperCollins Publishers