Barbara Ismail Western Chant

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When a dikir barat singer is invited to perform at a circumcision ceremony in a remote coastal village in Kelantan, Malaysia, things take an unexpected turn in the normally quiet fish market. Mak Cik Maryam is called to investigate a baffling double murder, and the motives must be untangled and the guilty identified. Maryam';s own life is in grave danger when she and Mak Cik Rubiah delve deeper into this world of secrets. Join Mak Cik Maryam in her sixth adventure assisting the Kota Bharu Police Department, or vice versa, in Western Chant, the latest in the award-winning Kain Songket Mysteries series. Western Chant is the sixth in Barbara Ismail's series of Kain Songket Mysteries based in Kelantan.