Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan



   Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty, detectives who handle minority sensitive cases, are asked to investigate the death of Christopher Drayton, who fell to his death from the Bluffs. 
   He was soon to marry gold-digger Melanie, who stood to inherit everything.  Was he more valuable to her dead than alive?  Or, Drayton may have been the assumed identity of a Bosnian war criminal, which is why Khattak and Getty are on the case.  Did his past come back to haunt him?  Or, did a man simply fall to his death?
   I learned quite a bit about the Bosnian war of the 1990s, and parts of this book graphically described atrocities committed during the war.    If you don’t mind war details, this debut novel is an OK murder mystery.  The author leaves a few story threads untied (that I wished were neatly tied up), obviously in preparation for future books.

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