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A review by constantreader471
A Dangerous Crossing by Ausma Zehanat Khan
4.0
4 stars
Thanks 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 the island in hopes of finding a new home in the European Union. The book weaves the elements of human suffering, human trafficking, people smugglers and the abysmal conditions of the refugee camps into a coherent whole. Esa and Rachel do find Audrey and we get glimpses of their complicated personal lives, evidently discussed in previous books in this series. This is book 4 in the series and I suspect that I would have enjoyed it more if I had read the previous books in the series. Still, I recommend it.
One quote: "The pain of it struck him, in new and vulnerable places. He was leaving his history behind. The city of jasmine, the country that desolated childhood. In Turkey, everything was different: a mixture of fear, lonieliness, desperation, hunger, ridicule and cruelty; exploitation leavened by occasional kindness."
Thanks 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 the island in hopes of finding a new home in the European Union. The book weaves the elements of human suffering, human trafficking, people smugglers and the abysmal conditions of the refugee camps into a coherent whole. Esa and Rachel do find Audrey and we get glimpses of their complicated personal lives, evidently discussed in previous books in this series. This is book 4 in the series and I suspect that I would have enjoyed it more if I had read the previous books in the series. Still, I recommend it.
One quote: "The pain of it struck him, in new and vulnerable places. He was leaving his history behind. The city of jasmine, the country that desolated childhood. In Turkey, everything was different: a mixture of fear, lonieliness, desperation, hunger, ridicule and cruelty; exploitation leavened by occasional kindness."