![]() ![]() ![]() Thank you to Minotaur Books for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review.īlackwater Falls is the first in a series about Inaya Rahman, a female Muslim detective in Colorado. I cannot wait to read more from this author. If it makes you uncomfortable, it should. It might seem like the author is going overboard to some readers, but this is not a novel experience for many BIPOC, especially women of colour. ![]() The book’s blurb, and hopefully my synopsis, are very clear that this is a book steeped in racial tensions and politics. It was a bit cringe at times but not totally awkward. I would have liked more chapters from her team members, but maybe we’ll see that in future books. As Inaya is the main character, her story is the most fleshed out. This police procedural follows a few POVs, but Inaya’s is the main character arc. And she receives harassment from the police department and church, which are predominantly white. She feels like an outsider to her community who views her job as a betrayal. ![]() Particularly those who are hostile to people of colour and those close to the victim.Īside from the investigation, Inaya grapples with pleasing her mother, who desperately wants her to get married. Inaya looks at the major players in this community. She quickly learns that two other Muslim girls have recently gone missing and that the sheriff did not thoroughly investigate their disappearances. When the body of a bright, young Syrian refugee is strung over the door of a mosque, Detective Rahman and her team investigate who might be behind this murder. Inaya Rahman is part of the Community Response Unit of the Denver Police. 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.ĭelving deep into racial tensions, and police corruption and violence, Blackwater Falls examines a series of crimes within the context of contemporary American politics with compassion and searing insight.īlackwater Falls introduces Detective Inaya Rahman in the first book of a new crime series. Inaya turns to her female colleagues, attorney Areesha Adams and Detective Catalina Hernandez, for help in finding the truth. 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. But as Inaya gets closer to the truth, Seif finds ways to obstruct the investigation. 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.ĭetective 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. 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. From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and powerful crime series, introducing Detective Inaya Rahman. ![]()
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