Utube Inspector Mislan and the emancipatist conspiracy

Rozlan Mohd. Noor

Book - 2021

In this new thriller, Mislan and Detective Sergeant Johan are called to the scene of an ongoing investigation by D11, the Sexual & Child Abuse Investigation Division, that involves a series of rapes of successful young women. What immediately jumps out as D11's Inspector Sherry investigates the first case is that the attack was filmed with a video camera. The perpetrator, gloved and masked, had gained access to the victim's apartment and was there with a cameraman, standing over her, when she woke in her bedroom. When the video appears on UTube with the legend that it shows her "salvation," the shame of it drives her to suicide. The second case involving the same M.O. has left a friend of the rape victim murdered at ...the scene, and that brings in the team from Special Investigations. Forced by their superiors to combine efforts, with Sherry in the lead, Mislan struggles to rein in his maverick impulses. But the video of the second assault is posted online and then still another makes the news, leading to mounting public alarm. With pressure from above to close the case quickly, the two inspectors have no choice but to find the way to work together and uncover the trail that will lead them to the shadowy figure who calls himself the Emancipatist.

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Subjects
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Novels
Published
[New York] : Arcade CrimeWise [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Rozlan Mohd. Noor (author)
Edition
First North American edition
Item Description
Originally published in 2012.
Physical Description
330 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781950691425
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Review by Booklist Review

Noor, a former criminal investigator and prosecutor, digs into Kuala Lumpur's gritty underworld and elite enclaves, weaving in an experienced take on departmental politics and procedures. In his third outing, following Duke (2021), accomplished but loose-cannon Inspector Mislan is forced to take second seat in a serial-rape investigation that begins with the case of a female executive's attack, filmed and posted on UTube by a user signed on as The Emancipatist. When the rapists murder a second victim's roommate, the brass attempts to appease the public with a task force led by straight-arrow Inspector Sherry. Political and public pressures ramp up when the team determines that the rapists work in highly coordinated rotating teams; Mislan suspects that a subculture of people who believe that LGBTQ+ women can be "cured" through rape is also involved. Mislan's investigations will transport American readers to a distant city made familiar by human connections and misdeeds. A timely, nuanced portrayal of LGBTQ+ issues, Noor's latest is highly recommended for fans of John Burdett's Sonchai Jitpleecheep procedurals.

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

A rape case drives Noor's excellent third Malaysian procedural starring Insp. Mislan Latif of Kuala Lumpur's Special Investigation Unit (after DUKE: Inspector Mislan and the Expressway Murders). The victim, marketing v-p Era Amilia Zabidin, was sexually assaulted in her apartment by two masked men, one of whom videotaped the crime. After a video of her degradation is posted on UTube, Zabidin jumps to her death from her balcony to avoid further humiliation. Zabidin's parents want the men responsible charged with murder. Meanwhile, Mislan gets a traditional homicide to probe after a second young woman, banker Julie Maulana, is raped in the same way, and her roommate's throat is slit. The assailants left no forensic clues, and Mislan's search for them is complicated by an adversarial supervisor's interference. Noor, himself a veteran of the Malaysian police force, makes the plot twists plausible and his characters true to life. This gritty series merits a long run. (July)

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