TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khan,Ausma Zehanat
TI  - Blood betrayal
T2  - Blackwater Falls Series
SN  - 9781250822406
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Minotaur Books
KW  - Police
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women detectives
KW  - Police internal investigation
KW  - Racism in law enforcement
KW  - Police shootings
KW  - Prejudices
KW  - Colorado
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - Novels
N1  - "A Detective Inaya Rahman novel"--Cover
N2  - "In Blackwater Falls, Colorado, veteran police officer Harry Cooper is hot on the heels of some local vandals when the situation turns deadly: believing one of them has a gun, Harry opens fire and Duante Reed, a young Black man, is killed. The "gun" in his hands was a bottle of spray paint. Meanwhile, in nearby Denver, a drug raid goes south and a Latino teen, Mateo Ruiz, is also killed. Detective Inaya Rahman is all too familiar with the name of the young cop who has seemingly killed Mateo: Kelly Broda. Kelly is the son of the police officer John Broda, who led a violent attack on her when they were both in Denver. No one is more surprised than Inaya when John turns up on her doorstep, pleading for her help in proving the innocence of his son. With the Denver Police force spread thin between the two cases, protests on both sides of the cases begin. Inaya and her boss Lieutenant Wagas Seif have their work cut out for them to consider the guilt of the perpetrators and their victims. Harry was by all accounts an officer dedicated to the communities he served: was this shooting truly a terrible mistake? Is Kelly cut from the same bad cloth as his father Duante is, to some, a street artist with no prior record, but to others, a vandal, while Mateo was either in the wrong place at the wrong time, or a dangerous drug dealer. Regardless, was lethal force necessary? Forced to reckon with her own prejudices and work through those of her colleagues around her, Inaya must discover the truth of what really happened on one fateful night in Blackwater Falls"--
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