The Unquiet Dead

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Call Number: Mystery / Khan, Ausma
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Khan, Ausma	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"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--which looks 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 secrets of 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 linger with readers long after turning the final page"-- Provided by publisher.

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an engrossing mystery (with more books in the series!) submitted by bec on July 26, 2020, 10:54am Having reread Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad books for the nth time, I was on the lookout for a new mystery/crime series to read when a friend wrote a recommendation for these books that was basically a love letter. This first entry in the series, which centers on Toronto-area Community Policing colleagues Esa Khattack and Rachel Getty, develops a strong cast of recurring characters, an engrossing and deeply moving mystery, and multi-layered personal and professional conflicts. I loved it, and as soon as I submit this review I'm starting the second book.