Blackwater Falls(Detective Inaya Rahman)
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls are largely disregarded. At last, the calls for justice become too
loud to ignore when the body of a star student and refugee—the Syrian teenager Razan Elkader—is deliberately positioned in a mosque.
Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas Seif of the Denver Police are recruited to solve Razan’s murder, and they quickly uncover a link to other missing and murdered girls. But as Inaya gets closer to the truth, Seif finds ways to
obstruct the investigation. Inaya may be drawn to him, but she is wary of his motives: he may be covering up the crimes of their boss, whose connections in Blackwater run deep.
Inaya turns to her female colleagues, attorney Areesha Adams and Detective Catalina Hernandez, for help in finding the truth. The three have bonded through their experiences as members of vulnerable groups, and now they must work
together to expose the conspiracy behind the murders before another girl disappears.
A gripping thriller from one of the genre’s finest writers, Blackwater Fallsexamines a series of crimes within the context of contemporary American politics with searing insight.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In Ausma Zehanat Khan’s clever murder mystery, a woman struggles with her dual identity as both an outsider and a cop. When a teenage Muslim girl is found nailed to the door of a small mosque in Blackwater Falls, Colorado, Detective Inaya Rahman—a Muslim and a recent transplant to the city—is assigned to investigate. Khan takes us on a wild and thrilling ride that involves two other missing girls, a racist sheriff, an Islamophobic megachurch, and a vengeful Christian biker gang. As she fights to solve the crime and hold the perpetrators responsible, Inaya emerges as a fascinating heroine who must answer to her family, her faith, and the larger community. Writer and actor Fareeda Pasha narrates the story, and her performance gives the many characters their own vivid personalities, from nervous teenage girls to angry, hate-mongering goons. Blackwater Falls will make you jump—and think—at every turn.