Murder Under the Bridge: A Palestine Mystery, by Kate Raphael
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Murder Under the Bridge: A Palestine Mystery, by Kate Raphael
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When Rania―the only female Palestinian police detective in the northern West Bank, as well as a young mother in a rural community where many believe women should not have such a dangerous career―discovers the body of a foreign woman on the edge of her village, no one seems to want her look too deeply into what’s happened. But she finds an ally in Chloe―a gay, Jewish-American peace worker with a camera and a big attitude―and together, with the help of an annoying Israeli policeman, they work to solve the murder. As they do, secrets about war crimes and Israel’s thriving sex trafficking trade begin to surface―and Rania finds everything she holds dear in jeopardy. Fast-paced and intricately plotted, Murder Under The Bridge offers mystery lovers an intimate view of one of the most fraught political conflicts on the planet.
Murder Under the Bridge: A Palestine Mystery, by Kate Raphael - Amazon Sales Rank: #969945 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .90" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
Murder Under the Bridge: A Palestine Mystery, by Kate Raphael Review “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
About the Author Kate Raphael is a San Francisco Bay Area writer, feminist and queer activist and radio journalist, who makes her living as a law firm word processor. She lived in Palestine for eighteen months as a member of the International Women’s Peace Service, documenting human rights abuses and accompanying Palestinians as they attempted to live normal lives under occupation. At the end of her time in Palestine, she was imprisoned for over a month by the Israeli authorities and eventually deported. In 2011, she won a residency at Hedgebrook. She produces the weekly radio show, Women’s Magazine, on KPFA/Pacifica, which is heard throughout Northern and Central California. Her writing from Palestine has been included in the anthology Peace Under Fire (Verso), Reclaiming Quarterly, Left Turn, and websites including miftah and palestinemonitor.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A page-turner filled with delicious cross-cultural counterpoint By East Bay Reader I was hooked from the moment Rania, the Palestinian police detective and protagonist of MURDER UNDER THE BRIDGE, finds the body of a young, foreign woman under a highway bridge outside the West Bank village of Azzawiya. The first novel of the Palestine Mystery series is a page-turner.The author’s portrayal of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation opens a window onto a world that most readers wouldn’t otherwise see through the lens of news and op-eds from and about this part of the world. Raphael’s matter-of-fact portrayal -- the intricate and engrossing scenery against which her mystery plays out -- is filled with delicious cross-cultural counterpoint as Rania works her murder case with occasional help from a solidarity activist named Chloe, who is American, Jewish, and a lesbian. Chloe’s bold determination and driven empathy makes her as much a sister to Rania in their common sense of justice (and obstinate resolve to see it realized) as the two are opposite in nationality, religion, and sexuality. This combustive mix of similarity and juxtaposition also surfaces in Rania’s wary co-investigation of the murder with Israeli detective Benny Lazar. Rania holds a guarded respect for her Israeli counterpart, despite his frustrating obliviousness to the threat of haram (shame) in the eyes of her community as she travels, interviews suspects, and lunches alone with a colleague who is both a man and an Israeli.The tension between Fatah and Hamas is unavoidable in a story set in the West Bank, but inter-Palestinian politics too are rendered not in wild, accusatory polemic, but in the recognizably-everyday business of behind-the-back jockeying for position and advantage in the bureaucracy of a police department. The constant backbeat of invisibility and dismissal that both Rania and Chloe face as women operating in social territory claimed by men is drawn with sharp humor. In one of my favorite scenes, three Israeli police officers can’t find the deportation prison to which they are supposed to be taking Chloe and, classically, drive around and around the coastal city of Hadera into the wee hours of morning rather than stop and ask directions. By the time they arrive at the razor-wired complex at two in the morning, Chloe reflects that, “She had never been so glad to see the inside of a prison.”A great read, with twists at the end that leave readers with a vivid sense of just how far complicity with occupation and exploitation extends even into the ranks of Israeli progressives. Still, the book offers hope that seekers of justice -- in this book, characters drawn from Israeli, Palestinian, and Jewish-American cultures -- will continue to act with compassion and integrity, even at the risk of offending their fractious compatriots.(I received a free, advance reader copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A view into Palestine By Amazon Customer In “Murder Under the Bridge” Kate Jessica Raphael paints an illuminating picture of daily life in the West Bank of Palestine, ranging from checkpoints, home demolitions, and settler violence to ordinary family life in Palestinian Arab culture. And she does it all in the context of a page-turner who-done-it style mystery novel! I was engaged from page one! Not only is the story engrossing, but Rafael’s characters are captivating and illuminate the wide variety of people that populate this landscape, from Israeli and international activists to Arab villagers in the West Bank, including a spunky hijab-wearing policewoman, to high-level officials in the Israeli military and their immigrant nannies. Each one is intriguing and thought-provoking regarding their unique roles in the landscape and their own personal motivations.The story centers on three women: Rania, the policewoman, Chloe, the activist from San Francisco and Nadya, the murdered immigrant whose body is inexplicably found under a bridge in the West Bank of Palestine. I found myself wanting to eat a falafel with Rania and learn more about how she balances her family life with the demands of her chosen work which she pursues with as must passion as she has for her child and husband. I wanted to share an espresso with Chloe when she returned home (I live near San Francisco) to understand how she could work so long in such a stressful and tragic place. And for sure I wished that I could have helped Nadya defend against the powerful forces aligned against her.As the mystery unfolds, the complexities of Israeli politics and policies in Palestine are revealed in tandem with solving the murder mystery. Both are satisfyingly resolved, however deeply disturbing. As would be the case of any novel about Palestine. This is a must-read for anyone who loves a good mystery or for anyone who wants a deeper description about a part of the world that is often shallowly represented or even misrepresented.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. is a fine book. Set in the occupied West Bank By Barbara Rhine "Murder Under the Bridge," by Kate Raphael, is a fine book. Set in the occupied West Bank, otherwise known as Palestine among its Arab inhabitants and their Israeli, American and European supporters, the well-paced mystery explores a milieu most American readers know little about. Right there it has that wonderful advantage of well-written fiction--the reader gets to inhabit a far-away place s/he may never get to visit in person, and to understand--even it could be said to experience--subtleties s/he will not find in sociopolitical analyses.Raphael has two female narrators: Rania, a Palestinian policewoman, and Chloe, an American Jewish lesbian activist. Both are similar in their acerbic inner observations about female life under male domination, and this theme is amusing and insightful at once. Their lives are very different, however, when it comes to family and friends. While concerned about each other's welfare, they are not necessarily going to be close. (Raphael has a second book in the making, so perhaps we will soon find out.)The plot, of course, centers on the need to solve a murder. The victim, surprisingly, is neither Palestinian nor Israeli but instead a European woman brought over by a sex trafficking ring. Both police and suspects span the spectrum from ordinary Palestinians and Israeli Arabs trying to live their lives, to political activists from both these Arab communities, to Israeli activists, to Israeli leaders, to Israeli religious settlers. These categories are not always mutually exclusive, so the fabric of the book is complex.Raphael manages to negotiate all this without becoming unintelligible, which is a fine achievement. And she deftly explores the persistent complexities of language that swings between Arabic to Hebrew to English and back. Do be sure, however, to use the glossary early and often. I found it too late.The solution to the mystery met E. M. Forster's two requirements for good plot: 1) it slips in unexpectedly, and 2) it appeals to the reader's intelligence in hindsight. The author could have explicated a bit more about the emotional reverberations when the truth is found out, but that is a quibble.So why four stars instead of five?Well, this reader wanted more conversations about the issues of the day. Wouldn't Rania and her husband, both politically sophisticated, discuss the fundamentalism that had to already be on the rise in this period, shortly before the Hamas electoral victory in Gaza? Chloe and Trina--why not have them compare notes on how it felt to be tourist outsiders, one Jewish and the other Palestinian? Wouldn't demonstrators who want to stop Israeli bulldozing of olive orchards talk about where the peace process was or wasn't, whether the two-state solution was viable and/or desirable at all, how a non-Israeli dominated society could ever come to pass in this place? Maybe Rania could be asked by an ignorant American when she puts on and takes off her hijab and jilbab within her own community, and why?Raphael is from an activist milieu where such issues are debated fervently, and she is a very good writer. Without being pedantic or needing to arrive at answers, she could have woven such exchanges into the fabric of both daily life and action around the murder, to further expose the texture of this heady place that is at the source of so much conflict in today's world.Do not let this keep you from the book. "Murder Under the Bridge" is a fine read, both for mystery aficionados and for those who care about Israel, Palestine and the Middle East. And if you happen to fit in each category, you will be very pleased with this book and already looking forward to the next.
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