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Ausma Zehanat Khan

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Ausma Zehanat Khan is a British-born Canadian living in the United States, whose own parents are heirs to a complex story of migration to and from three different continents. A former adjunct professor at American and Canadian universities, she holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law, with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as the main subject of her dissertation. Previously the Editor in Chief of Muslim Girl Magazine, Ausma Zehanat Khan has moved frequently, traveled extensively, and written compulsively. Her new crime series debuted with 'Blackwater Falls' in November 2022. She is also the author of 5 books and 1 novella in the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series, including the award-winning 'The Unquiet Dead'. And she is the author ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 15,064 ratings · 3,030 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1) 3.83 avg rating — 5,350 ratings — published 2015 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 2,708 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Language of Secrets (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #2) 3.82 avg rating — 1,719 ratings — published 2016 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Among the Ruins (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #3) 3.83 avg rating — 1,066 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dangerous Crossing (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #4) 4.09 avg rating — 902 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Deadly Divide (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #5) 3.92 avg rating — 810 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 779 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bloodprint (The Khorasan Archives, #1) 3.16 avg rating — 899 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Death in Sarajevo (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak, #3.5) 3.91 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Khan (The Khorasan Archives #2) 3.88 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ausma Zehanat Khan's Blog: The Ravenscroft House

The Missing and The Affair

The Missing

I wanted to talk about this limited British series because it was such an excellently done mystery. The premise is like the Madeline McCann kidnapping. A British couple is on holiday in France, their young son goes missing. For eight years they try to find him, the marriage implodes, the couple separates, the mother tries to move on, the father keeps returning to France. There are eight Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 25, 2016 16:38 • Tags: the-affair, the-missing

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Series by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak (5 books)
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Ausma Zehanat Khan (Goodreads Author)

3.86 avg rating — 10,123 ratings

Blackwater Falls (3 books)
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Ausma Zehanat Khan (Goodreads Author)

3.78 avg rating — 3,487 ratings

The Khorasan Archives (4 books)
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Ausma Zehanat Khan (Goodreads Author)

3.43 avg rating — 1,360 ratings

Quotes by Ausma Zehanat Khan (?)

“If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system?”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, Among the Ruins

tags: anger, injustice, justice

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“....in Bosnia, mass rape was a policy of the war, systematically carried out, implicating neighbors, paramilitaries, soldiers.”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Unquiet Dead

tags: bosnia, bosnian-war, genocide, rape, serbia, war

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“Something could be beautiful, humane, encompassing. Or it could be made ugly. And maybe that was the lesson. We bring to a tradition what is already within ourselves, however our moral compass is designed, whatever our ethical training is. And then the tradition speaks.”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Language of Secrets

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