Ausma Zehanat Khan
“THESE ARE VERY politicized times,” says Ausma Zehanat Khan, the British-born Canadian author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series, which follows a Toronto-based Muslim detective and his young partner who become entangled in various crimes reflecting the volatility of the post-9/11 world. “Anyone who is from a minority community, their existence is political. That’s just a reality that you live and that you deal with every day, and so I think the point of my books [have become] more urgent and more necessary.”