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Inspector Mislan and the Emancipatist Conspiracy
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Publisher Description
For fans of Jo Nesbo, Ian Rankin, and Michael Connelly, the third Inspector Mislan thriller takes the inspector to a netherworld of vicious crimes against women.
In this new thriller, Mislan and Detective Sergeant Johan are called to the scene of an ongoing investigation by D11, the Sexual & Child Abuse Investigation Division, that involves a series of rapes of successful young women.
What immediately jumps out as D11's Inspector Sherry investigates the first case is that the attack was filmed with a video camera. The perpetrator, gloved and masked, had gained access to the victim's apartment and was there with a cameraman, standing over her, when she woke in her bedroom. When the video appears on UTube with the legend that it shows her "salvation," the shame of it drives her to suicide. The second case involving the same M.O. has left a friend of the rape victim murdered at the scene, and that brings in the team from Special Investigations.
Forced by their superiors to combine efforts, with Sherry in the lead, Mislan struggles to rein in his maverick impulses. But the video of the second assault is posted online and then still another makes the news, leading to mounting public alarm. With pressure from above to close the case quickly, the two inspectors have no choice but to find the way to work together and uncover the trail that will lead them to the shadowy figure who calls himself the Emancipatist.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A rape case drives Noor's excellent third Malaysian procedural starring Insp. Mislan Latif of Kuala Lumpur's Special Investigation Unit (after DUKE: Inspector Mislan and the Expressway Murders). The victim, marketing v-p Era Amilia Zabidin, was sexually assaulted in her apartment by two masked men, one of whom videotaped the crime. After a video of her degradation is posted on UTube, Zabidin jumps to her death from her balcony to avoid further humiliation. Zabidin's parents want the men responsible charged with murder. Meanwhile, Mislan gets a traditional homicide to probe after a second young woman, banker Julie Maulana, is raped in the same way, and her roommate's throat is slit. The assailants left no forensic clues, and Mislan's search for them is complicated by an adversarial supervisor's interference. Noor, himself a veteran of the Malaysian police force, makes the plot twists plausible and his characters true to life. This gritty series merits a long run.
