The Diamond Knot

The bombing of a discount diamond-jewelry chain left bodies burned beyond recognition. For forensic artist Ranit El Alouf, it was her latest contract job, sketching faces and matching identities to the innocent caught in the blast. One of them may turn out to be the bomber - but there are people in the diamond business, as well as activists on the protest line, who don't want the killer unmasked. As Ranit draws closer to identifying the dead, both her work and her life are threatened. But she's determined to finish the assignment and collect her fee - the only way to free her imprisoned husband. She may succeed in saving her family... but at the risk of her own life.

Susan Daitch is the author of five novels, L.C., The Colorist, Paper Conspiracies, The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir, White Lead, and a collection of short stories, Storytown. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Black Clock, Guernica, Conjunctions, Slice, Tablet, Tin House, McSweeney's, Bomb, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and two Vogelstein fellowships. Fall Out, a novella, published by Madras Press, donates all proceeds to Women For Afghan Women. She lives in Brooklyn and www.susandaitch.net.

Cover Design by Pepe Nymi.


Genre: Mystery