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.

About the Author
Ausma Zehanat Khan holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law with a specialisation in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She has practised immigration law and taught human rights law at Northwestern University and York University. Formerly, she served as Editor in Chief of Muslim Girl magazine, the first magazine to reflect the lives of young Muslim women. Her debut novel, The Unquiet Dead, won the Barry Award, the Arthur Ellis Award and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Novel. She is a longtime community activist and writer. Born in Britain, Ausma lived in Canada for many years before recently becoming an American citizen. She lives in Colorado with her husband.

Reviews
'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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780857303547
Author Ausma Zehanat Khan
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint No Exit Press
Publisher Bedford Square Publishers