Equal to Mystery: In Search of Harold Sonny Ladoo (Peepal Tree Press) by Christopher Laird traces the unlikely life and times of Trinidad’s mysterious late novelist, author of No Pain Like This Body and Yesterdays. Taking a keen interest in Ladoo’s history — both on and off the record — Laird retraces the author’s migration to Canada, his relationships with fellow writers, and Ladoo’s heretofore-unmined repository of unpublished letters and archival materials. The results portray a fascinating personage, at once obsessed with fame and haunted by numerous iniquities that thwarted him. Equal to Mystery is the first major monograph to be published on Ladoo.