Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak
Minotaur Books
January 2015
On Sale: January 13, 2015
Featuring: Rachel Getty; Christopher Drayton; Esa Khattak
353 pages ISBN: 1250055113 EAN: 9781250055118 Kindle: B00LDRARWK Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Despite their many differences, Detective Rachel Getty trusts her boss, Esa Khattak, implicitly. But sheβs still uneasy at Khattakβs tight-lipped secrecy when he asks her to look into Christopher Draytonβs death. Draytonβs apparently accidental fall from a cliff doesnβt seem to warrant a police investigation, particularly not from Rachel and Khattakβs 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 thatβs 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.
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