Gaslight

Longlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2024

"Wonderful" - Lee Child
"Outstanding" - Nadine Matheson
"Deftly plotted" - Guardian
"Vivid and immersive" - Big Issue

Folasade Dawodu is married to the Bishop of a Nigerian megachurch. She is prominent, she is young, she inspires: she is the First Lady. But when Bishop Jeremiah Dawodu is arrested at the pulpit for the murder of his beloved wife, shock cuts through this tight community. The arrest is televised all around Lagos, but while the Bishop consistently maintains his innocence and his congregation believes him, the First Lady remains missing. Philip Taiwo, a compassionate investigative psychologist, is asked by his sister, a member of the Dawodus' church, to take on the case: to find out the truth, whatever the cost. But as he searches for Folasade, his own beloved family begins to fracture.

Gaslight is the sensational follow-up to Femi Kayode's acclaimed debut, Lightseekers, picked as a Book of the Month by the Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, and Irish Times, and as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month.

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"Femi Kayode is an unparalleled wordsmith" - S. A. Cosby
"The atmosphere and characters were authentic to the point I felt I could recognize them, and I was captivated to find out who was responsible and why" - Amen Alonge.