You can see it in her earlier series, which stars the investigators Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak, and now in BLACKWATER FALLS (Minotaur, 375 pp., $27.99), the impressive series debut of the Denver ...

Rahman discovers that two Somali girls who were friends of Razan’s disappeared months before, but were dismissed as runaways by Blackwater’s powerful sheriff, who’s known to mistreat minorities.