Dogstar Rising: A Makana Mystery (The Makana Mysteries)

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Summer 2001. The mutilated bodies of young boys are turning up in the backstreets of Cairo and the finger of suspicion is pointing at the citys Coptic community. As Makana a private investigator who fled his native Sudan a decade ago watches the embers of religious hatred begin to glow he has a premonition that history may be about to repeat itself. But for now Makana has another case to solve involving a disgruntled travel agent stolen money and threatening letters-an assignment that appears to point to nothing more than a family feud. That is until Makana meets Meera a woman with a dangerous secret who asks for his help- and stumbles upon an unlikely link to the murdered boys. When the travel agents office becomes the backdrop to a brutal killing Makana is the sole witness and he attracts the unwanted attention of not only the state security services and the police but also a disreputable Sudanese businessman-who claims to hold the key to Makanas past. His search for answers takes him from the labyrinth of Cairo to the city of Luxor and an abandoned monastery near the tombs of the pharaohs where he uncovers a web of intrigue violence and secrecy that reaches deep into Egypts political heart...