More trouble on the streets of Cairo in a gripping new investigation for ‘one of crime fiction’s most interesting and sympathetic detectives’ (The Times) A severed head washes up on the banks of the Nile. The police turn a...
The protagonist is Sudanese, living in Cairo and the subtle aspects of life in that part of the world are effortlessly conveyed by the author. It is Cairo, 2002. Makana and Sindbad are instructed by Magdy Ragab to follow her lawyer...
Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of the Sudanese novelist Jamal Mahjoub, who, like many “literary” writers, is venturing into the detective genre. The setting is present-day Cairo, where in a broken-down houseboat on the Nile, former police inspector Makana...
It is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo’s crowded streets the heat is rising… The unsolved murders of young homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred.As tensions mount, Makana – who fled his home in Sudan...
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