Inspector Metau: The Case of the Angry Councillor

With only a couple of years to go before he retires Inspector Hari Metau is avoiding headquarters and heading for his favourite coffee shop in his battered old Land Rover when he comes across the body of a local Ward Councillor in the shallows of Port Moresby’s Ela Beach. When Hari gets too close to the truth he is arbitrarily suspended from duty. Undaunted, he presses on to a surprising end. ‘Inspector Metau: The Case of the Angry Councillor’ is an intricate portrayal of the many problems that bedevil Papua New Guinea, a country engaged in an economic boom but still riven by the old tribal traditions of sorcery and payback ……