A disturbing novel of betrayal, love and hate.

Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls #2) by Ausma Zehanat Khan     

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The Community Response Unit is called out to two police shootings of young men—one Latino, one Black.

Mateo Ruiz was gunned down by Kelly Broda, a police officer in Denver precinct. It turns out Mateo had been holding a spray can, not a gun. 

Harry Cooper from Blackwater Falls had from all the evidence shot Duante Young. Young was a graffiti artist and he also had a spray can.

Detective Inaya Rahman is part of the Community Response Unit. Their job is to determine what has happened in police shootings of unarmed people.

The community have no doubt that the deaths will be white washed.

Lieutenant Waqas Seif heads the Response team. He’s also an FBI agent. Part of his job is to track down the white supremacist who have infiltrated the Blackwater Falls police.

Inaya Rahman is a Muslim woman who had been attacked by her fellow officers at Chicago Police for wearing an Hijab and being Muslim. John Broda was part of that attack. Now he wants her help to clear his son.

Broda offers Inaya a chance to clear the name of the last victim she’d been investigating in Chicago. Another young man shot by police.

Their investigations will lead them through a labyrinth of complications that reach back into the past.

The second book in a series but it can easily be read independently. I must say though this was such a compelling read I feel pulled to go back and read the first in the series.

A Minotaur Books ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.