Among the Ruins, Ausma Zehanat Khan
Among the Ruins, Ausma Zehanat Khan
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Among the Ruins
A Mystery

Author: Ausma Zehanat Khan

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Unabridged: 12 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2017


Synopsis

From Ausma Zehanat Khan, the critically acclaimed author of The Unquiet Dead and The Language of Secrets,comes Among the Ruins, another powerful audiobook exploring the interplay of politics and religion, and the intensely personal ripple effects of one woman’s murder.

On leave from Canada’s Community Policing department, Esa Khattak is traveling in Iran, reconnecting with his cultural heritage and seeking peace in the country’s beautiful mosques and gardens. But Khattak’s supposed break from work is cut short when he’s approached by a Canadian government agent in Iran, asking him to look into the death of renowned Canadian-Iranian filmmaker Zahra Sobhani. Zahra was murdered at Iran’s notorious Evin prison, where she’d been seeking the release of a well-known political prisoner. Khattak quickly finds himself embroiled in Iran’s tumultuous politics and under surveillance by the regime, but when the trail leads back to Zahra’s family in Canada, Khattak calls on his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, for help.

Rachel uncovers a conspiracy linked to the Shah of Iran and the decades-old murders of a group of Iran’s most famous dissidents. Historic letters, a connection to the Royal Ontario Museum, and a smuggling operation on the Caspian Sea are just some of the threads Rachel and Khattak begin unraveling, while the list of suspects stretches from Tehran to Toronto. But as Khattak gets caught up in the fate of Iran’s political prisoners, Rachel sees through to the heart of the matter: Zahra’s murder may not have been a political crime at all.

About Ausma Zehanat Khan

AUSMA ZEHANAT KHAN holds a Ph.D. in international human rights law with a specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She is the author of the award-winning Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty mystery series, which begins with The Unquiet Dead, as well as the critically acclaimed Khorasan Archives fantasy quartet. Her new crime series, featuring Detective Inaya Rahman, debuted with Blackwater Falls. Blood Betrayal, her follow-up novel, won the Colorado Book Award and was a Finalist for the WILLA Literary Award for Multiform Fiction. Ausma is also a contributor to the anthologies Private Investigations, Sword Stone Table, The Perfect Crime and A Thousand Nights. She is the founder of the Muslim Writers Index, and the author of the middle grade book, Ramadan. A British-born Canadian and former law professor, Ausma now lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Esil on February 16, 2017

3.5 stars. Among the Ruins combines two of the ingredients I love in fiction – it’s both set in a very familiar setting and took me to a different part of the world. This is the third in Khan’s Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak series. Esa has traveled to Iran while on leave from his work with the Toront......more

Goodreads review by Sue on March 05, 2017

Esa Khattak is in Iran, on a personal trip, a vacation of sorts, visiting historical and religious sites important to him and his Muslim heritage. He entered the country not as the Canadian policeman he is but as a more acceptable, to the Iranian government, Pakistani, the country of his parents. No......more

Goodreads review by Julie on May 23, 2019

Esa Khattak, on leave from Toronto's Community Policing Department, travels to Iran and becomes embroiled in a political situation that quickly becomes a murder mystery. As in the first two installments of Getty & Khattak, author Ausma Zehanat Khan calls on current politics to craft an atmospheric, i......more


Quotes

"Narrator Peter Ganim delivers all the urgency that is packed into Khan's novel." -AudioFile Magazine