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  • Unquiet Dead

  • A Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak Novel
  • Written by: Ausma Khan
  • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
  • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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Unquiet Dead

Written by: Ausma Khan
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
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Publisher's Summary

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 listeners long after turning the final tick.

©2015 Recorded by arrangement with Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. (P)2015 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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What the critics say

"A spectacular debut. Khan has written a heartbreaking book that stays with you long after you've put it down." (Reza Aslan, number one New York Times best-selling author of Zealot)
"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)

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Wonderful but difficult book

I recommend this book highly, but it's not an easy read. Challenging but important story.

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Historical lecture but not a novel

This was a long lecture on a terrible historical event. The author is passionate about the material. It is a great history lesson but don’t look for character development or plot.

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