The Unquiet Dead : A Novel
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
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?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Whether you love a classic mystery or lean toward boundary-pushing, genre-twisting fiction, you’ll be blown away by The Unquiet Dead. It’s the first book in a series about second-generation Canadian Muslim detective Esa Khattak and his sometimes brutally direct sergeant, Rachel Getty. The pair are investigating the seemingly accidental death of Christopher Drayton, but things get complicated when they discover the victim may have actually been Drazen Krstic, an officer in the Serbian Army who orchestrated the deaths of thousands of Muslims during the Bosnian War. Ausma Zehanat Khan pulls us into this multilayered tale with a cast of fascinating characters and beautiful writing that’s lyrical even when she’s depicting the shocking details of the Srebrenica genocide. Narrator Peter Ganim’s steady and powerful performance adds extra emotional weight to the tense tale.