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| She Demons: A Mister Jinnah Mystery |
Jinnah is back in She Demons: A Mister Jinnah Mystery
How can an enterprising newspaper reporter sell his Babji dolls when there's a beheaded street youth, a Rave Messiah battling a berserk "God Squad," and a conniving new editor to deal with? Especially when he's suffering every symptom of dengue fever? Hakeem Jinnah is back and is as politically incorrect as ever. The chain-smoking, headline-chasing hypochondriac is in a race to find a killer and help save his buddy Sergeant Graham's career. But a bevy of She Demons bedevils him at each turn. Soon Jinnah is entangled in a cultic web that threatens his friends, his family, and his life.
Fast-paced, funny, and suspenseful, this is the second Mister Jinnah novel featuring the larger-than-life crime reporter. Just as in his debut adventure, Mister Jinnah: Securities, the flirtatious and ever resourceful Jinnah has to use every ounce of his investigative genius to solve a crime… and make an extra buck on the side.
Mister Jinnah: She Demons is already generating positive reviews. Publishers' Weekly, North America's most influential book journal, had this to say about the novel:
"Hakeem Jinnah, the Vancouver Tribune's crusading crime reporter, investigates a bizarre beheading in Canadian author Hauka's amusing second Mister Jinnah mystery (after 2001's Mister Jinnah: Securities). The post-mortem cuts on the cheeks of the teenage victim, Thad Golway, resemble the logo of the Yakshas, a Southern California drug cartel infiltrating British Columbia. Golway had been a member of the Millennial Magi ('MiMi') cult, the antics of whose leader, musician Lionel Simons, have already disrupted the local Indo-Canadian community. Even Saleem, Jinnah's impressionable 16-year-old son, is caught up in the MiMi excitement and their New Age outreach program. The disappearance of a potential eyewitness to Golway's murder, possibly orchestrated by sexy MiMi member Jassy Singh, leads Jinnah on a merry chase along with his archrival, snarky TV reporter Caitlin Bishop. An Ismaili Muslim with obsessive-compulsive quirks, Jinnah is one of the genre's more interesting crime solvers."
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Cannon praised Jinnah as "smart and funny," adding, "Mr. Jinnah's first outing, in Mr. Jinnah: Securities, was adapted for television. She Demons should set him up for a series." Read the whole review at:
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/new-in-crime-fiction-a-guide-to-the-latest-thrillers-and-mysteries/article1787193/page2/
Mister Jinnah: She Demons is in bookstores everywhere and available online at amazon.ca and chapters.indigo.ca, among others.
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