This is the fourth Inspector Esa Khatttak and Sergeant Rachel Getty mystery. Esa and Rachel are based in Ottawa but most of this novel takes place on the Greek islands close to Turkey, where tens of thousands of Syrian and other refugees await their fates, hoping for safe passage to Europe, Canada or anywhere but these islands. Esa and Rachel head their after the sister of Esa's best friend, Audrey, disappears. Audrey works for a NGO Women to Women, which helps relocate refugees to Canada.The st...

A very relevant and sad topic,a good plot idea,ruined by constant repetition and silly romance.MCs not engaging.

Another unflinching novel from Khan who uses the structure of crime fiction to brilliantly expose and publicise flashpoint political issues. Her first book The Unquiet Dead still haunts me with its engagement with genocide and war crimes in the Balkans conflicts; this one, the fourth in the series, comes a close second as she takes on the plight of Syria and the refugee crisis. It's often the case that 'issues' crime becomes unbalanced, focusing on either the politics or the fiction: Khan always...

Reviewing under the title of 'No Place Of Refuge'This is a issue laden book which is, however, not issue laden. The characters and the plot serve a greater purpose in highlighting the plight of Syrian refugees, who are not just fleeing persection, threat of death and abuse, the are being thrown into a global spotlight. From the very word used to describe them, 'Migrant' instead of refugee, it creates a public perception of someone who chose to move from their homelands. In dismantling the very d...

In her latest novel, Khan's Canadian police duo are tasked by their Prime Minister with discovering what has happened to Audrey Clare, a Canadian citizen working with an NGO in Greece, helping Syrian refugees who have washed up on Greek islands. While she has been trying to help these people no one wants, she has apparently run afoul of some person or group...she has disappeared and two people working with her are dead, shot dead.This detective work will require tact as well as tactics, as they

I'm still enjoying the series, but it's getting further away from being the police procedural that it started out as. Getty and Khattak are interesting characters, and I'm still really enjoying the fact that each new book focuses on cultural and political issues in a different Muslim community, but they're not really functioning like Canadian police officers as much anymore. And that's a shame because part of what I enjoyed about the books when they started was the way the series highlighted the...

3.75 stars.I have read three of the four books in Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Getty and Khattak series, and I think A Dangerous Crossing was my favourite.Khan’s series is based in Toronto and always focuses on crimes that have a contemporary international facet. In this case, Getty and Khattak are called upon to investigate the disappearance of a Canadian women working to assist with Syrian refugees in Greece. Khan does an impressive job of taking a fairly close look at the complexity and brutality of

This is the fourth book in the series featuring Inspector Esa Khattak and Sgt. Rachel Getty. This time the two go to Greece to look for Audrey Clare, the sister of Esa’s friend Nathan Clare, who has gone missing while helping to resettle Syrian refugees. Two bodies were found in the offices of her NGO so did Audrey go into hiding in fear for her life or did she run after murdering two people or was she abducted? The mystery of Audrey’s disappearance is sufficiently interesting, but it is not dif...

In No Place of Refuge, the author bravely tackles the subject of refugees, mixing it with a touch of politics and a personal investigation to find a close friend who has vanished abroad, leaving two dead bodies behind her. Have no fear, you won’t drown in a report-like narrative, judgmental declarations, or ‘not-so-well’ hidden messages on every subject that makes this novel so rich. I picked this new installment in the series with excitement, knowing I would travel and learn about the world in

No Place of Refuge is the fourth novel to feature Canadian detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty of the RCMP’s Community Police.When NGO worker Audrey Clare disappears from the Greek island of Lesvos her powerful brother, Nathan, is worried, not least because two dead bodies were found in her tent. Asa Khattak and Rachel Getty are sent to Lesvos to investigate. I can’t say that I enjoyed No Place of Refuge, simply because it is a difficult, harrowing read. I read fiction for entertainment and

This is my first read of this series featuring Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty, RMCP community policing partners in Toronto. This is a intelligent, considered and such a moving addition, so impressively researched from an author with expertise in Human Rights Law, which she uses remarkably effectively in this emotionally harrowing book on the complexities and horrors of the Global Refugee Crisis, the terrors of the Syrian War, and the flood of fleeing refugees it created. Nathan

I’m a big fan of this series for a bunch of reasons, but the biggest is that I get to travel the world while learning about important social issues. Khan has once again written a smart and thoughtful detective mystery which creates a bunch of characters in a way that steers far away from creating stereotypes or monoliths. Canadian detectives Getty and Esa find themselves looking into the disappearance of a friend’s sister who vanished while helping Syrian refugees in Greece. Being that there are...

A sensitive and emotionally gripping novel with our two Canadian detectives.

3.5 When Nathan Clare asks for his friend Esa's help to find his sister Audrey, who is missing in Greece, trying to help the refugees, he accepts. With the approval of the prime minister, he and his partner Rachel, find themselves in Greece, right in the midst of the crisis. This is an unusual series in that Esa is a Canadian police officer who is also a Muslim, it is also more literary that other offerings in this genre. This is the fourth in series, and is as strong as those who came before. T...

4 starsThanks to NetGalley, Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press and the author for sending me this ARC ebook. I found the the story to be absorbing and depressing. Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak, RCMP police officer partners, are sent to Greece on a personal mission by the Prime Minister to find a Canadian who has gone missing on the Greek island of Lesvos, near mainland Turkey. She is the sister of a rich friend of the PM. Audrey Clare was on the island as a volunteer, helping refugees coming to th...

ausma zehanat khan holds a Ph.D. in international human rights law, with a research specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the balkans. in each of her novels in the getty & khattak series she brings her experiences into her stories. though the characters are based in toronto, their work, khan's mysteries, have taken readers into the painful history of ethnic cleansing in bosnia, examined radical islamists in toronto and northern ontario, and portrayed the lives of dissidents i...

like the previous novels this story is utterly gripping, highly relevant whilst being both entertaining and hugely thought provoking.Detail and emotion abound, set against the backdrop of the Syrian refugees crisis, a murder and a missing aid worker draw Khattak and Getty into a very personal and difficult investigation…The characters are sublimely formed and hugely relatable, the ongoing personal drama heightened and the current case extraordinarily compelling. I’m not sure where it’s going yet...

Returning to her full-length novels, Ausma Zehanat Khan takes the reader into another of the crises facing the Muslim population today, with a Canadian flavouring in this police procedural. Two bodies turn up on a Greek island, one a French INTERPOL agent and the other a Syrian refugee. A Canadian NGO has been processing Syrians for relocation in North America and its founder has gone missing. After a rocky time for the Community Policing Section, Inspectors Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty are back...

This was fantastic. Khan's series featuring Canadian investigators, Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak has continually featuring complex, and timely mysteries entrenched in current events. When you add in Khan beautiful and thoughtful writing, you have magic. Each book is dark and thought-provoking but there's also something soothing about Khan's writing style and how she often shows hope amidst harsh realities. If you're a fan of Louise Penny, you have to pick up this series. While very different fro...

This is the fourth full length novel in Khan’s Esa Khattak & Rachel Getty mystery series, and quite possibly the best. It certainly is the most heartbreaking. Like her previous novels, the mystery is set against a backdrop of a humanitarian crisis. The Unquiet Dead dealt with the aftermath of the Srebrenica massacre, The Language of Secret with stopping a terror attack on Canadian soil, Among the Ruins discusses the Iranian regime and their torture of political dissidents, and this book brings t...