A series of gruesome murders shakes the city of Casablanca. The killer know exactly how the police will pursue him and how to obliterate evidence that could lead them to identify the victim. Detective Hanash, despite his reputation, has hit a dead end. Is the killer taunting the police and its famous detective? -- Provided by publisher.
When young and handsome Othman married Sofia-sophisticated, French, rich, and forty years his senior-he found his ticket out of a life of desperate poverty in the slums of Casablanca. But when Sofia is brutally murdered, the police quickly zero in on Othman as the prime suspect. With his mistress, the love of his life, waiting in the wings he certainly has motive. But is he guilty? Or has he been framed by an overzealous, corrupt police force?
The first book in the Detective Hanash crime series. When a prostitute and her ill-fated lover are killed in a gruesome double murder, seasoned investigator Detective Hanash is called in. The case draws him into Casablanca's slums, blighted by criminality, religious extremism, and despair. Hanash harbors a personal connection to one of the victims, one he must conceal at all costs.
The first Arabic detective novel to be translated into English, by award- winning Moroccan screenwriter.
The traffickers. The drug dealers. The smugglers.They know what it takes to get a gun into Morocco, and so does Detective Laafrit.When a fourth corpse in three days washes up in Tangier with a bullet in the chest, Laafrit knows this isn't just another 'illegal' who didn't make it to the Spanish coast.As his team hunts for the murder weapon, Laafrit follows a hunch and reveals the killer at the heart of an international conspiracy.A fast-paced crime thriller from the Arab west.