Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
3.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41457
Points per Word
0.000145
Description
When fifteen-year-old Shehana finds Vlora, a Kosovan prostitute who came to England illegally with her brother, stabbed and dying on her London housing estate, she stops to help her. Shehana must now find Vlora's brother and work with him to track down the killer, while keeping this dangerous investigation secret from her strict parents who want her to focus on school and marry a man of their choosing. The novel follows Shehana as she enters a world completely foreign to her own in order to bring a murderer to justice.