Rania, a Palestinian police detective with a young son, meets cheeky Jewish-American feminist Chloe at an Israeli checkpoint-and soon becomes embroiled in a murder case that implicates the highest echelons of the Israeli military.
"One of the best mysteries I've read in a long time. Kept me from doing ten important things I should have been doing because I just had to finish it! Kate Raphael writes great women characters and does a fantastic job of portraying the realities of Palestinian life as background to a gripping story."
-Starhawk, best-selling author of The Fifth Sacred Thing and The Spiral Dance
"Strong and complex female characters, a unique and vividly drawn setting, and an utterly compelling story-Kate Jessica Raphael offers you everything you could possibly want in a page-turning mystery. Let's hope this is the first of many novels to come."
-Elaine Beale, author of Murder in the Castro
"[Murder Under the Bridge's] mix of murder and politics makes for fascinating reading, made even richer by the revealing glimpse of life in the occupied territories."
-Booklist
"A stunning mystery novel by a talented new writer. Anyone picking up the book will be drawn in by Rania and Chloe, a dynamic, realistic, pair of women sleuths . . . An outstanding addition to the global mystery field. More, please!"
-Sujata Massey, author of The Sleeping Dictionary
"Raphael has created a wonderful cast, most especially her Palestinian policewoman, Rania? Authoritatively and vividly rendered, Murder Under the Bridge is a compelling read."
-Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and The Jane Austen Book Club
"Both [Chloe] and Rania work, in their own ways, to protect the innocent from easy labels like terrorist-labels that Raphael dismantles and examines in this provocative novel."
-Publishers Weekly
"Raphael thoroughly captures the tension of life on the West Bank by setting a murder in a location marked by daily violence. Substantial yet humanly flawed female protagonists give depth to both the mystery ? and the political and social turmoil of the region."
-Library Journal, starred review
