Soulless Inspector Mislan and the faceless girl

Rozlan Mohd. Noor

Book - 2022

"Early morning in Jalan Alor, one of the city's red-light and tourist hotspots controlled by the Triads. A junkie's scream of horror and the commotion that follows brings down the police, first a patrol car, and then, after what the officers see, Inspector Mislan and Detective Sergeant Johan from Special Investigations. The body in the duffle bag had been dumped in a back alley. The junkie who found the bag thought he'd hit the jackpot. The rats probably thought the same. But it was acid that took the young woman's face and burned the flesh on her fingers, and something unknown caused the marks on her skin of what appears to be torture. With no papers, no fingerprints, no face, and a body removed from the original c...rime scene, Mislan must build his case and find who committed this atrocity. The woman's body seems to have been a message. But by whom? For whom? This unsettling case will take Inspector Mislan and his team from Kuala Lumpur to the Land of Smiles, and from a dark alley to the dark web and a place where humans are made soulless" --

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Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Novels
Published
New York, NY : Arcade Crimewise 2022.
Language
English
Main Author
Rozlan Mohd. Noor (author)
Edition
First North American edition
Physical Description
300 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781950691432
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

At the start of Noor's superb fourth novel featuring Insp. Mislan Latif of Kuala Lumpur's Special Investigation Unit (after 2021's UTube: Inspector Mislan and the Emancipatist Conspiracy), a drug addict opens an abandoned duffel bag he finds in an alley in a disreputable part of the capital city, hoping it contains something he can profit from. Inside is the body of a woman whose face and fingers have been burned off with acid; the autopsy reveals the disfigurement happened while she was still alive. Identifying the victim is a challenge, but Mislan overcomes resistance to his inquiries and follows a trail of clues that takes him to Thailand, where he has no legal authority. Noor, a veteran of the Malaysian CID, excels at nailing the details of dull, shoe-leather police work, contrasting the quotidian routines with the grim crimes driving the plot and the complicity of those in power who treat some human life as worthless. The ending doesn't pull any punches and radically changes the series' status quo. Fans of hard-edged crime fiction from authors such as James Ellroy and Paul Cleave will be riveted. (July)

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