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Beautiful words – The Language of Secrets

Posted by Aruna at August 1, 2018 in editor's choice &reviews &the literary lounge

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Beautiful words – The Language of Secrets

  Good crime fiction usually grabs you from the very first page, immersing you instantly in the author’s world. Great books grab you from the very first words: Ausma Zehanat Khan’s excellent The Language of Secrets does just that. Set in twenty-first century Canada, on paper the book is a tale of our times, its … Continue readings →

Tags : 21st-century terrorism in fiction, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Canadian crime fiction, Canadian noir, crime fiction award-winning fiction, Khattak, The Language of Secrets, Toronto

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