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The unquiet dead / Ausma Zehanat Khan.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250055118 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781250055187 (trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: 344 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition Trade Paperback
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2014
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| Subject: | Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Murder victims > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
| Topic Heading: | Festival of the Written Arts 2018 > Sechelt (B.C.) |
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- 23 of 23 copies available at Sitka.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Grand Forks and District Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Grand Forks | M KHA (Text) | 35142002569886 | Mystery Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Creston Public Library | MYS KHA (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140100010100 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort Nelson Public Library | FIC KHA (Text) | 35246000835064 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. James Public Library | KHA (Text) | 35193900000383 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. John Public Library | AF KHA (Text) | 35211000255325 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Galiano Island Community Library | MYS KHA (Text) | 33127000118531 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Hazelton Public Library | Fic (Text) | 35154000102198 | Adult Fiction - Main Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | Kha (Text) | 32665001988445 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Mayne Island Reading Centre | KHA (Text) | 33128000108407 | Fiction - Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nelson Public Library | MYS KHA (Text) | 3514830020664 | Mystery & Crime | Volume hold | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Detective Esa Khattack and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, investigate the death of a local man who may have been a Bosnian war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in a haunting debut novel of loss, redemption and the cost of justice. - Baker & Taylor
Detective Esa Khattack and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, investigate the death of a local man who may have been a Bosnian war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. - Baker & Taylor
"Detective Esa Khattak is in the midst of his evening prayers when he receives a phone call asking that he and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, look into the death of a local man who has fallen off a cliff. At first Christopher Drayton's death--whichlooks like an accident--doesn't seem to warrant a police investigation, especially not from Khattak and Rachel's team, which handles minority-sensitive cases. But it soon comes to light that Drayton might have been living under an assumed name, and he may not have been the upstanding Canadian citizen he appeared to be. In fact, he may have been a Bosnian war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. And if that's true, any number of people could have had reason to help him to his death. As Rachel and Khattak dig deeper into the life and death of Christopher Drayton, every question seems to lead only to more questions, and there are no easy answers. Did the specters of Srebrenica return to haunt Drayton at last, or had he been keeping secretsof an entirely different nature? Or, after all, did a man just fall to his death in a tragic accident? In her spellbinding debut, Ausma Zehanat Khan has written a complex and provocative story of loss, redemption, and the cost of justice that will lingerwith readers long after turning the final page"-- - McMillan Palgrave
âKhan is a refreshing original, and The Unquiet Dead blazes what one hopes will be a new path guided by the author's keen understanding of the intersection of faith and core Muslim values, complex human nature and evil done by seemingly ordinary people. It is these qualities that make this a debut to remember and one that even those who eschew the [mystery] genre will devour in one breathtaking sitting.â âThe LA Times
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.
