Makana Mysteries: The Golden Scales : A Makana Investigation (Paperback)

from KarenSiddall

Moody and atmospheric with an engaging private detective in Cairo The year is 1998, and former police inspector Makana, a refugee from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety houseboat on the Nile outside Cairo. He fled his country years earlier when it became too dangerous for him and his family u...

from julia.flyte

Set in an unsettled Cairo, shortly after the 1997 terrorist attacks in Luxor, this is the story of a private detective hired to find a missing football star by the team's millionaire owner. Makana is a terrific character: brave, damaged and cynical, a former policeman who fled Sudan when civil un...

from cameling

A child goes missing during her mother's drug induced blackout, and her mother spends years coming back to Cairo trying to find her. Adil Romario, national soccer hero in Egypt is missing and Makana, an ex-police inspector from Sudan who had lost his family and forced to seek refuge in Cairo, is ...

from auntmarge64

The first in a series featuring an ex-pat Sudanese policeman eking out a living as a private detective in Cairo. Having fled his country after its takeover by Islamists and the death at their hands of his wife and daughter, Markana rents a small floating structure on a riverbank and tries to earn...

from quiBee

This is a mystery set in Cairo back in the 1980s. Macana is an outsider, a former police inspector from Sudan who didn't turn a blind eye when he should have and who so was forced to leave his country and lost everyone dear to him. He barely makes a living investigating cases the local police don...