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A procedural that takes its bureaucracy seriously — the obstruction here is paperwork, and it is far more frightening than a gun.
Tobi Adeyemi, Editor Masobe Books
The Harmattan Case
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A body in a Kaduna guest house, a case file that keeps losing pages, and an inspector three months from a pension he would rather not lose.
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- 4.5★ average
Twenty-two years in the Nigeria Police Force, then a decade writing about it. Ibrahim Sule’s Inspector Danladi novels are procedurals in the strictest sense: the obstruction is almost always paperwork.
He is careful to say the cases are invented. He is less careful about the committees.
- Kaduna, Nigeria
- Writes in English, Hausa
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- 20 Jan 2026
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- English
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903 ratings · 2 written reviews
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903 ratings
Yusuf D. Yusuf D. Verified
Finally a Nigerian procedural that gets the procedure right
The missing pages in the case file are the most realistic thing I have read in fiction this year. You can tell he has actually sat in those offices.
Ibrahim Sule author · 6 May 2026
The file is invented. The office is not.
Amina S. Amina S. Verified
Good mystery, too many characters
I kept flipping back to work out who was who. A cast list at the front would have fixed it. The ending is strong though.
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