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Detective Novel from Morocco, kind of a mixed bag

December 8, 2018 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Whitefly is a short detective novel by Moroccan writer Abdelilah Hamdouchi. Hamdouchi writes crime fiction and has had success as a screen writer of police thrillers. This novel was first published in Arabic in 2000 and translated by Jonathan Smolin in 2016. It is a noir-ish story of bodies washed up on the shore in Tangier. Are the deaths related? And why does one of the bodies have gunshot wounds? Detective Khalid Ibrahim, aka Laafrit, must rely on his instincts and connections both in the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, Abdelilah Hamdouchi, Detective Fiction, ElCicco, Fiction, Whitefly

ElCicco's CBR10 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, Abdelilah Hamdouchi, Detective Fiction, ElCicco, Fiction, Whitefly ·
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