She Demons
A Mister Jinnah Mystery
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Publisher Description
How can an enterprising newspaper reporter sell his Babji dolls when there’s a beheaded street youth, a Rave Messiah battling a berserk “God Squad,” and a conniving new editor to deal with? Especially when he’s suffering all the symptoms of dengue fever? Hakeem Jinnah is back and as politically incorrect as ever. The chain-smoking, headline-chasing hypochondriac is in a race to find a killer and help save his buddy Sergeant Graham’s career. But a bevy of She Demons bedevil him at each turn. Soon Jinnah is entangled in a cultic web that threatens his friends, his family, and his life.
Fast-paced, funny, and suspenseful, this is the second Mister Jinnah novel featuring the larger-than-life crime reporter. Just as in his debut adventure, Mister Jinnah: Securities, the flirtatious and always resourceful Jinnah has to use every ounce of his investigative genius to solve a crime … and make a few extra dollars on the side.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hakeem Jinnah, the Vancouver Tribune's crusading crime reporter, investigates a bizarre beheading in Canadian author Hauka's amusing second Mister Jinnah mystery (after 2001's Mister Jinnah: Securities). The postmortem cuts on the cheeks of the teenage victim, Thad Golway, resemble the logo of the Yakshas, a Southern California drug cartel infiltrating British Columbia. Golway had been a member of the Millennial Magi ("MiMi") cult, the antics of whose leader, musician Lionel Simons, have already disrupted the local Indo-Canadian community. Even Saleem, Jinnah's impressionable 16-year-old son, is caught up in the MiMi excitement and their New Age outreach program. The disappearance of a potential eyewitness to Golway's murder, possibly orchestrated by sexy MiMi member Jassy Singh, leads Jinnah on a merry chase along with his archrival, snarky TV reporter Caitlin Bishop. An Ismaili Muslim with obsessive-compulsive quirks, Jinnah is one of the genre's more interesting crime solvers.
