Private Investigator Leila Shirazi has a secret. Her sister’s kidnapping by an Iranian Basiji militiaman twelve years ago in Tehran was all her fault.
Heroin smuggler Niloufar Taheri knows a secret. It involves her Basiji boss, but she can’t tell anyone without incriminating herself.
Leila’s journalist cousin, Cyrus Bakhtiar, convinces Niloufar to tell him the Basiji’s secret. In exchange, she’ll get new identity papers and free passage out of Iran.
The Basiji kills Cyrus before he can deliver his promise, but Niloufar escapes. Leila is not about to let another Basiji get away with crime that hurt her family. But to bring the killer to justice, she’ll have to track Niloufar down and learn the secret before the Basiji finds the snitch first and silences her forever.
Bad Hejab
Heidi’s short stories have been translated into German, French, Polish, Estonian and Slovenian.
She is represented by Elizabeth Trupin-Pulli of JET Literary Associates.
