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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATION
THE MOST FASCINATING DETECTIVE IN THE HISTORY OF CRIME FICTION
Ash Rashid is a detective with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and one of the few Muslims on the force. Never one to play by the rules, Ash has decided he wants out of the police. So the last thing he wants to get involved in is a fresh murder investigation.
But when Ash hears that the mother of his daughter's best friend has been killed in a brutal hit and run he steps in to help. And when some of his colleagues prove reluctant to investigate, Ash swiftly gets caught up in an explosive mix of election-year politics, crime and police corruption.
The Outsider is the stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of The Abbey, the US novel that became a word of mouth phenomenon. You won't be able to put it down.
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At the start of Culver's intricate sequel to The Abbey, Det. Ash Rashid comes home one evening to find Indianapolis crime boss Konstantin Bukoholov waiting for him in his backyard. Bukoholov offers the detective $5,000 in cash to look into a hit-and-run accident earlier in the day that killed a close friend of Ash and his family, Cassandra Johnson. Ash soon learns that, although Cassandra's body is in the morgue and her six-year-old daughter, Lisa, is in the custody of Child Services, no one in the police department has heard of Cassandra, let alone filed a homicide report. Meanwhile, Susan Mercer, Ash's boss in the prosecutor's office where he works part-time, needs his help in the trial of a Muslim immigrant from Iraq accused of killing a cop. Ash's struggles to resist the temptations of alcohol, forbidden by his Muslim faith, add depth to his character. Readers will be curious to see what happens to him in his next outing.
