About the Book: The Black Crescent
Bringing 1950s Morocco vividly to life, Jane Johnsons masterful new novel, The
Black Crescent, is a gripping story of murder, magic and divided loyalties...
Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village with the magical signs of the zouhry on
his hands. In Morocco, the zouhry is a figure of legend, a child of both humans
and djinns, capable of finding all manner of treasure: lost objects, hidden
water.
But instead, Hamou finds a body.
This unsolved murder instils in Hamou a deep desire for order and justice: he
trains as an officer of the law, working for the French