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'
*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'
*The Globe and Mail*

'Issues of religion, culture, and racism take center stage in Khan's outstanding fifth novel'
*Publishers Weekly*

'Outstanding...Khan perceptively explores how fear can quickly erupt into violence'
*Publishers Weekly*