Ausma Khan
Fairfax
Virginia United StatesPen Name(s): Ausma Zehanat Khan, Ausma Khan, Ausma Khan, Ausma Khan, Ausma Khan
Virginia United StatesPen Name(s): Ausma Zehanat Khan, Ausma Khan, Ausma Khan, Ausma Khan, Ausma Khan
Blood Betrayal, Blackwater Falls, The Unquiet Dead, The Language of Secrets, Among the Ruins, A Dangerous Crossing, A Deadly Divide, The Lines We Cross, The Bloodprint, The Black Khan, The Blue Eye, The Bladebone
Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty Series, Detective Inaya Rahman Series, The Khorasan Archives Series
Police Procedural
The Perfect Crime, Private Investigations, Sword Stone Table, A Thousand Nights
A Death in Sarajevo The Yellow Line
Subject Expertise
Crime fiction Fantasy fiction International Human Rights Law Genocide Islamic History Tenets of Islam All as applied to my work in crime fiction and fantasy
Ausma Zehanat Khan holds a Ph.D. in international human rights law with a specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty mystery series, which begins with The Unquiet Dead, as well as the critically acclaimed Khorasan Archives fantasy quartet. Blood Betrayal, the winner of the Colorado Book Award, is the latest book in her Blackwater Falls crime series. Ausma is also a contributor to the anthologies Private Investigations, Sword Stone Table, The Perfect Crime and A Thousand Nights. She is the founder of the Muslim Writers Index and has a long history of community engagement and activism. A British-born Canadian and former law professor, Khan lives in Virginia with her husband.