[Amanda Brown 03] • The Boy Who Stole the Leopard's Spots

Like Alexander McCall Smith’s ever-popular No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels, *The Boy Who Stole the Leopard’s Spots* immerses readers in a breathtaking African landscape they simply will not wish to leave. For the third time, author Tamar Myers carries readers a world away from Charleston, South Carolina, and her Den of Antiquity cozy mysteries—circling the globe to the Belgian Congo in equatorial Africa in the 1950s.  *The Boy Who Stole the Leopard’s Spots* is a wonderfully engrossing, breathtakingly evocative return to the lush locale of her previous acclaimed African-set mysteries, *The Witchdoctor’s Wife* (“[A] mesmerizing novel….Authentic. Powerful. Triumphant” —Carolyn Hart) and *The Headhunter’s Daughter*—as a monsignor of the Catholic church, shamed by a secret event in his past and accused of a terrible crime, must join forces with an American missionary, a police chief, and a witchdoctor and his wise-woman wife to clear his name.