By chance last month I found myself reading two mystery novels at once, although I rarely even read one mystery novel at once. The first was Parker Bilal’s The Golden Scales, set in the criminal underworld of 1990s Cairo; and the second was Deborah Crombie’s A Share in Death, in which a Scotland Yard superintendent has rather a busman’s holiday at his cousin’s time share. Golden Scales sees Sudanese investigator Makana engaged by Egyptian mogul Saad Hanafi to find the missing Adil Romario, the star player of Hanafi’s football (soccer) team. As Makana digs deeper into Romario’s dealings, he finds…
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