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    'They Will Drown' Isn't A Whodunit, It's A Who-Is-It?

    Johannes Anyuru's unusual speculative mystery They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears follows two seemingly ordinary (at first) Swedish citizens dealing with the aftermath of a shooting.
    by Bethanne Patrick Nov 20, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Two Lines Press

    We know that not every mystery is a whodunit. Some are how-did-they-do-its, others why-did-they-do-its, and so on. But in Johannes Anyuru's unusual speculative mystery They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears, the question revolves around the very identity of a young woman known as Nour. (The book was translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel.)

    At first, we want to know why Nour would, wearing a suicide vest, turn her weapon on her co-conspirator Amin in

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