Murder Under the Bridge
A Palestine Mystery
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3.5 • 8 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Winner IPPY Silver in Mystery and IndieFab Finalist in Mystery and Multicultural Fiction
When Rania—the only female Palestinian police detective in the northern West Bank, as well as a young mother in a rural community where many believe women should not have such a dangerous career—discovers the body of a foreign woman on the edge of her village, no one seems to want her look too deeply into what’s happened. But she finds an ally in Chloe—a gay, Jewish-American peace worker with a camera and a big attitude—and together, with the help of an annoying Israeli policeman, they work to solve the murder. As they do, secrets about war crimes and Israel’s thriving sex trafficking trade begin to surface—and Rania finds everything she holds dear in jeopardy.
Fast-paced and intricately plotted, Murder Under The Bridge offers mystery lovers an intimate view of one of the most fraught political conflicts on the planet.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rania Bakara, the principal narrator of Raphael's compelling mystery, is the only female detective on the Palestinian police force in the occupied West Bank's Salfit District, where her colleagues grudgingly accept her. Called out to investigate an abandoned car, Rania discovers the body of a woman on the outskirts of her village, and it's soon obvious the victim is neither Palestinian nor Israeli. Because of the delicate situation between the Israeli and Palestinian police forces, Rania must work alongside Benny Lazar, an Israeli police officer, who seems to have much different motives when it comes to solving the crime. They determine that the deceased was Nadya Kim, an Uzbek woman who worked as nanny of sorts for Israel's deputy defense minister. Narrating alongside Rania is Chloe, an American peace activist who's in Palestine to advocate for nonviolence resistance. Both she and Rania work, in their own ways, to protect the innocent from easy labels like terrorist labels that Raphael dismantles and examines in this provocative novel. (BookLife)
Customer Reviews
Israel
I think it was a very well written book because I had lived in Arabia for many years. There is no one that you can call without sin. As in America it is is hard to know who is the in the wrong.