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Despite their many differences, Detective Rachel Getty trusts her boss, Esa Khattak, implicitly. But she's still uneasy at Khattak's tight-lipped secrecy when he asks her to look into Christopher Drayton's death. Drayton's apparently accidental fall from a cliff doesn't seem to warrant a police investigation, particularly not from Rachel and Khattak's team, which handles minority-sensitive cases. But when she learns that Drayton may have been living under an assumed name, Rachel begins to understand why Khattak is tip-toeing around this case. It soon comes to light that Drayton may have been a war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. If that's true, any number of people might have had reason to help Drayton to his death, and a murder investigation could have far-reaching ripples throughout the community. But as Rachel and Khattak dig deeper into the life and death of Christopher Drayton, every question seems to lead only to more questions, with no easy answers. Had the specters of Srebrenica returned to haunt Drayton at the end, or had he been keeping secrets of an entirely different nature? Or, after all, did a man just fall to his death from the Bluffs? In her spellbinding debut, Ausma Zehanat Khan has written a complex and provocative story of loss, redemption, and the cost of justice that will linger with readers long after turning the final page.
The Unquiet Dead, by Ausma Zehanat Khan - Amazon Sales Rank: #4508380 in Books
- Brand: Khan, Ausma Zehanat
- Published on: 2015-05-06
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.70" h x 1.20" w x 5.70" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 543 pages
The Unquiet Dead, by Ausma Zehanat Khan Review "A spectacular debut. Khan has written a heartbreaking book that stays with you long after you've put it down."--REZA ASLAN, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Zealot ""What a debut! Ausma Khan's "The Unquiet Dead" is a stirring mystery with unexpected, complex characters and a story that will keep you flipping pages until the wee hours."--JILLIANE HOFFMAN, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Pretty Little Things ""Evocative, surprising, and important. With its mesmerizingly personal voice, each lyrical sentence reveals another suspenseful layer of this complex and heartbreaking mystery. Harrowing and disturbing, its delicate strength creates tension on every page."--HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of "The Other Woman ""It would be enough that Ausma Zehanat Khan's "The Unquiet Dead" gives us an intriguing new detective team in Esa Khattak and Sgt. Rachel Getty. But it does far more than that. Khan creates an engrossing story that allows her to sift through the emotional rubble of real-world tragedy. In the end, it isn't just gripping. It's devastating."--STEVE HOCKENSMITH, Edgar-nominated author of "Holmes on the Range""Heartbreaking...[a story] that needs to be told."--"Booklist ""A spectacular debut. Khan has written a heartbreaking book that stays with you long after you've put it down."--REZA ASLAN, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Zealot ""What a debut! Ausma Khan's "The Unquiet Dead" is a stirring mystery with unexpected, complex characters and a story that will keep you flipping pages until the wee hours."--JILLIANE HOFFMAN, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Pretty Little Things ""Evocative, surprising, and important. With its mesmerizingly personal voice, each lyrical sentence reveals another suspenseful layer of this complex and heartbreaking mystery. Harrowing and disturbing, its delicate strength creates tension on every page."--HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of "The Other Woman ""It would be enough that Ausma Zehanat Khan's "The Unquiet Dead" gives us an intriguing new detective team in Esa Khattak and Sgt. Rachel Getty. But it does far more than that. Khan creates an engrossing story that allows her to sift through the emotional rubble of real-world tragedy. In the end, it isn't just gripping. It's devastating."--STEVE HOCKENSMITH, Edgar-nominated author of "Holmes on the Range""Khan's stunning debut is a poignant, elegantly written mystery laced with complex characters."--"Kirkus Reviews ""A spectacular debut. Khan has written a heartbreaking book that stays with you long after you've put it down."--REZA ASLAN, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Zealot ""What a debut! Ausma Khan's "The Unquiet Dead" is a stirring mystery with unexpected, complex characters and a story that will keep you flipping pages until the wee hours."--JILLIANE HOFFMAN, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Pretty Little Things ""Evocative, surprising, and important. With its mesmerizingly personal voice, each lyrical sentence reveals another suspenseful layer of this complex and heartbreaking mystery. Harrowing and disturbing, its delicate strength creates tension on every page."--HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of "The Other Woman ""It would be enough that Ausma Zehanat Khan's "The Unquiet Dead" gives us an intriguing new detective team in Esa Khattak and Sgt. Rachel Getty. But it does far more than that. Khan creates an engrossing story that allows her to sift through the emotional rubble of real-world tragedy. In the end, it isn't just gripping. It's devastating."--STEVE HOCKENSMITH, Edgar-nominated author of "Holmes on the Range""Beautiful and powerful."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "Khan's stunning debut is a poignant, elegantly written mystery laced with complex characters."--"Kirkus Reviews ""A spectacular debut. Khan has written a heartbreaking book that stays with you long after you've put it down."--REZA ASLAN, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Zealot ""What a debut! Ausma Khan's "The Unquiet Dead" is a stirring mystery with unexpected, complex characters and a story that will keep you flipping pages until the wee hours."--JILLIANE HOFFMAN, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Pretty Little Things ""Evocative, surprising, and important. With its mesmerizingly personal voice, each lyrical sentence reveals another suspenseful layer of this complex and heartbreaking mystery. Harrowing and disturbing, its delicate strength creates tension on every page."--HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of "The Other Woman ""It would be enough that Ausma Zehanat Khan's "The Unquiet Dead" gives us an intriguing new detective team in Esa Khattak and Sgt. Rachel Getty. But it does far more than that. Khan creates an engrossing story that allows her to sift through the emotional rubble of real-world tragedy. In the end, it isn't just gripping. It's devastating."--STEVE HOCKENSMITH, Edgar-nominated author of "Holmes on the Range""Beautiful and powerful."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "Khan's stunning debut is a poignant, elegantly written mystery laced with complex characters."--"Kirkus Reviews ""Compelling and hauntingly powerful...anyone looking for an intensely memorable mystery should put this book at the top of their list."--"Library Journal" (starred review) "A spectacular debut. Khan has written a heartbreaking book that stays with you long after you've put it down."--REZA ASLAN, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Zealot ""What a debut! Ausma Khan's "The Unquiet Dead" is a stirring mystery with unexpected, complex characters and a story that will keep you flipping pages until the wee hours."--JILLIANE HOFFMAN, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Pretty Little Things ""Evocative, surprising, and important. With its mesmerizingly personal voice, each lyrical sentence reveals another suspenseful layer of this complex and heartbreaking mystery. Harrowing and disturbing, its delicate strength creates tension on every page."--HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of "The Other Woman ""It would be enough that Ausma Zehanat Khan's "The Unquiet Dead" gives us an intriguing new detective team in Esa Khattak and Sgt. Rachel Getty. But it does far more than that. Khan creates an engrossing story that allows her to sift through the emotional rubble of real-world tragedy. In the end, it isn't just gripping. It's devastating."--STEVE HOCKENSMITH, Edgar-nominated author of "Holmes on the Range"
About the Author AUSMA ZEHANAT KHAN holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law with a specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She is a former adjunct law professor and was Editor-in-Chief of "Muslim Girl" magazine, the first magazine targeted to young Muslim women. A British-born Canadian, Khan now lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband. "The Unquiet Dead" is her first novel.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. A Great book! By OpenBookSociety dot com Brought to you by OBS reviewer ScottAs Ausma Zehanat Khan cites in her afterword:“For the first time since the Second World War, a genocide campaign of staggering ferocity and ruthlessness was unleashed against a civilian population in Europe, nearly in tandem with the international intervention that eventually became complicit in the suffering of Bosnia’s people.”Often cited as the U.N.’s greatest failure in modern history, the Serbian/Croatia-Bosnian conflict, with its ethnic cleansing, mass and pointless slaughter of men, children, and women, the rape camps and other acts of torture and cultural destruction of a people sets the background for this thrilling and thought provoking investigative novel.When a man falls to his death, Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty are asked by the Canadian Department of Justice to look into this Scarborough individuals death, acting under the auspices of the Community Policing Section, which Esa heads, and the Toronto police officer who has worked with him successfully and capably before, Rachel. The clues, plots and subplots thicken with every page turned and the novel wends and turns in a maddening gyre toward its heartbreaking conclusion. As in any good mystery novel, the clues are laid out for you at the appropriate moments and twist and turn on themselves. It reminded me a lot of Agatha Christie’s Poirot novels – especially Murder on the Orient Express, but with a modern grittiness to it that makes it shine in its own light.The writing is smooth and calculated, neither rushing the reader forward, nor denying him or her the information needed at the time. The Unquiet Dead keeps almost a solemn tone throughout, littered with quotes from the testimonies of the War Crimes Tribunal, Eyewitness Accounts and other quotes all pertinent to the 1992-1995 conflict. The pace is well executed; the diction perfect for this type of novel – dancing, thoughtful, and sometimes, through necessity, brutally blunt.The characterization is where the novel really speaks out, both with the cast of characters, in the present and past; The Unquiet Dead have their echoes of lament of their own as well. Each character is displayed in stunning three-dimensions, holding their secrets and pasts from the reader until necessitated by the plot. Esa and Rachel, the chief protagonists in the book are deep characters with problems rooted in the past and the present, that occasionally lead the reader off track so the mystery can build to its final resolution.Like Agatha Christie, Ausma Zehanat Khan should be heralded as a premiere writer of the mystery genre. Fans of Poirot, war stories, or those looking for a greater understanding of the Serbian/Croatia-Bosnian war and the sordid deeds committed there – as well as the casual reader – all will find something sticking to them in this well executed novel. The Unquiet Dead will leave you stories for life. It fully merits its five star rating and I would highly recommend it to anyone; especially Canadians.*OBS would like to thank the publisher for supplying a free copy of this title in exchange for an honest review*
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Well-Constructed Mystery and Serious Literary Fiction About the Bosnian War By Deborah The title of Ausma Zehanat Khan's debut, The Unquiet Dead, may make it sound like yet another zombie story. It is not. What it is, is one of those rare books which haunt you, which shock you with how little you really know about the world in which you live.The Unquiet Dead follows the lives of several survivors of the Bosnian war of the 1990s, both during and after the war, as their lives intersect not only with each other's but also with that of the recently deceased Christopher Drayton, who may or may not have been the war criminal Drazen Krstic. Khan has written an intelligent, well-structured mystery, but that is not what makes The Unquiet Dead such a superb book. Rather, it is Khan's gut-wrenching description of the travails of ordinary people during the Bosnian war: a description which is clearly well-researched (the endnotes contain numerous references to actual victim statements presented to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), but which carries a strong visceral punch. Khan has not fallen into the new author trap of trying to cram all of her research into her narrative; instead, she uses that research in a profoundly moving way, by introducing each chapter with a direct quotation from witness testimony, a technique which became apparent only once I reached the endnotes. I have never seen that done before, and it is remarkably effective.I was already an adult at the time of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, so I was appalled to discover how little I remembered of the Bosnian conflict. There is an entire category of Holocaust fiction attempting to explore, if not explain, the horrors suffered by Jews in World War II; was there a canon of Bosnian war fiction I had simply overlooked? While hardly a scientific approach, I searched online and found a 2009 list of "Novels Set During War in Bosnia, Sarajevo" from a Michigan library, but I had heard of none of the books on it; moreover, with the exception of S., by Slavenka Drakulic, they appeared to be set during the Bosnian war without actually focusing on the typical Bosnian experience during that war. Of the 44 books on the Goodreads list "Books on the Bosnian War of the 1990s," most are nonfiction reportage or memoir. By way of contrast, there are 76 books on the "Best Holocaust Novels" list and 63 on "Holocaust Literature." I don't know whether Khan's purpose in writing The Unquiet Dead was, at least in part, to remind the non-Muslim world about the Bosnian genocide, but she has certainly succeeded in doing so.Particularly at a time when many non-Muslims are terrified of "radical Islam," Khan's The Unquiet Dead fulfills what David Foster Wallace described as "a big part of serious fiction’s purpose": "to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves." I am grateful to her for doing so and highly recommend The Unquiet Dead, both as a piece of serious fiction and as the start of what looks to be a terrific new mystery series.I received a free copy of The Unquiet Dead through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. The mystery itself was excellent; this was an ending I did not see ... By Amanda The Unquiet Dead is a debut mystery that twines together a questionable death in Canada to the atrocities committed in the Bosnian War of the ‘90s. The reader is introduced to Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty who are in a special community policing division consisting basically of the two of them. Esa is called because the apparent accidental death of a businessman might actually be the suspicious death of a fugitive Serbian war criminal. Esa and Rachel need to try to confirm Christopher Drayton’s identity without disrupting the Bosnian community that has become established in Canada. They’re also trying to understand how a war criminal slipped through immigration to set himself up as a wealthy Italian importer. They begin to delve into his personal life and to try to understand the evidence left behind in his home. The mystery itself was excellent; this was an ending I did not see coming at all.Someone else had figured out that Drayton was not who he claimed to be and was trying to remind him of the life he had left behind. Esa and Rachel move between Drayton’s social circle and the Muslim community trying to find the threads linking them. This is further complicated as Esa is himself Muslim and has his own history in Sarajevo. I was enthralled by this book as I tried to figure out the killer before the police– I definitely didn’t do it this time.The story flashes from Drayton’s life in Canada to the past in Srebrenica and the Bosnian War. Khan masterfully uses quotes from survivors to make clear what went on during the massacre. I found myself in tears on the train at times as I read. I did not really understand what was happening in Bosnia when it was in the news so I did not have a lot of knowledge of the atrocities that occurred or the UN involvement. There is a list of further recommended reading included and I will be digging into that so I can educate myself further. The author did her PhD dissertation on the Srebrenica massacre so she clearly knows her subject.This was an intense and powerful read. Not only are Esa and Rachel deep into this stressful investigation but they are also figuring out their relationship as partners and both dealing with emotional police cases from their past. I was on edge while reading because of the mystery, but also due to their personal lives. I definitely want more, so I am so glad to see another book is in the works. Rachel in particular seemed to develop into a more complex character as the book finished and I cannot wait to see what’s in store for her. Esa was cryptic too often and I would hope his story becomes more open in the next book.4.5 stars!Thank you NetGalley and Minotour Books for this advance copy in exchange for an honest review!
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