Blackwater Falls--A Thriller

✍ Scribed by Ausma Zehanat Khan

• Book ID: 112394233
• Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 839 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250822390

✦ Synopsis

From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan,Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and powerful crime series, introducing Detective Inaya Rahman.
"A gripping and compulsive mystery, but much more than that: an exploration of faith, prejudice and fear of the unknown." --Ann Cleeves, New York Times bestselling author of the Vera, Shetland and Two Rivers series
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 largely ignored. 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 positioned deliberately in a mosque.
Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas Seif of the Denver Police are recruited to solve Razan's murder, and quickly uncover a link to other missing and murdered girls. But as Inaya gets...