A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery of 2022
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Blackwater Falls (Book 1)
Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls. The calls for justice become too loud to ignore when the body of star student and refugee 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. But as Inaya gets closer to the truth, Seif finds ways to obstruct the investigation. Inaya turns to attorney Areesha Adams and Detective Catalina Hernandez for help. Now they must work together to expose the conspiracy behind the murders before another girl disappears.