A Deadly Divide
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers
Published:6th Feb '20
£8.99
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IN A TOWN FULL OF SECRETS, WHO CAN YOU TRUST?
In a town full of secrets, who can you trust?
In the aftermath of a mass shooting in a mosque, small town tensions run high. Clashes between the Muslim community and a local faction of radical white nationalists are escalating, but who would have motive and opportunity to commit such a devastating act of violence?
Detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty from Canada's Community Policing Unit are assigned to this high-profile case and tasked to ensure the extremely volatile situation doesn't worsen. But when leaked CCTV footage exposes a shocking piece of evidence, both sides of the divide are enraged.
As Khattak and Getty work through a mounting list of suspects, they realise there's far more going on in this small town than anyone first thought...
A Deadly Divide is a piercingly observed, highly topical thriller by human rights law professor and award-winning author Ausma Zehanat Khan.
'Khattak first appeared in Khan's powerful novel The Unquiet Dead, and the author's background in international human rights law provides strong underpinnings. But this is not a social document - it is a page-turner. Khan's acutely realised protagonists are never idealised but always deeply human' * Financial Times *
'This is her fifth book in a perceptive and heartfelt series... Khan has used her experience as a lawyer to create a compelling story that pulls no punches, one that exposes an uncomfortable truth about the state of the world we live in' -- Doug Johnstone * The Big Issue *
'Ausma Zehanat Khan's A Deadly Divide tells truths that non-fiction would struggle to communicate; A Deadly Divide, as with Khan's previous novels, expands the Canadian crime fiction palette because it presents a world where crime-solving is part of deeper and more substantive global issues' -- Sarah Weinman * The Globe and Mail *
'Issues of religion, culture, and racism take center stage in Khan's outstanding fifth novel' -- Hannigan Salky Getzler * Publishers Weekly *
'Outstanding...Khan perceptively explores how fear can quickly erupt into violence' * Publishers Weekly *
ISBN: 9780857303547
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416 pages