title: Echoes of a Heartbeat
author: Amah, Lilian
description: I love every glorious bit of you. I've wanted you so much that it's almost driven me crazy . . .' Nice words from a nice man, and it seems to Kehinde Lawson that her husband, Dr. Femi Taylor, is all that she could wish for. And, he's accepted the child she has had by a former lover, the fiery and unpredictable Derrick Williams. Then disaster strikes. Femi is run down in a Lagos street, and Kehinde is left to pick up the pieces . . . as a pretty and well-endowed widow. The stage, her secret obsession, beckons. Success as an actress, plus the attentions of her leading man, point to a bright new future. But Derrick slowly seeps back into her life, and in time there's another fatality, a visit from the police, and a trial for the most serious crime of all. Who is guilty? Lilian Amah's roller-coaster novel shows us beautifully the fine line between love and suspicion, malice and murder, set against the backdrop of a vibrant modern African nation.