Too ShortTears. Can't see to type through the tears. A beautiful short story of loss, love, and redemption. I need more!

I do enjoy Khan's writing. While I rarely purchase stories written by series authors, this seemed a time to make an exception. Some plot developments did occur that I am pleased to know (and will be curious to see how/if she covers them as completely in the next book, Among the Ruins). I also appreciated the second part of the story, in which Esa travels to Sarajevo to help a friend with unanswered questions left from the Bosnian War. That is one conflict that has been dogging Esa for some time....

This novella told a story of Esa's past, but not about him. As with all of Khan's books, it is beautifully written.

Khan's short story "A Death in Sarajevo" fits in nicely between full-length novels The Language of Secrets and Among the Ruins and manages to take care of a little business that's not contained in either book. This makes it a good addition for fans already hooked on the series and a good introduction for those readers who have yet to read one of her excellent mysteries.

Way too short and now I feel the need to read the new book, sooner rather than later!

This is an intriguing short story set in Sarajevo. Esa Khattak returns to Sarejevo to help a friend solve the mystery of his fiance's death during the war twenty years before. It's a great read as it develops Esa's character further, and is about the Bosnian war. Through this story I learnt about the Bluebird Brigade, an all-female fighting unit during the war. I really loved this story as I have loved everything I've written so far from Khan.

With three successful novels in the series, Ausma Zehanat Khan takes her Canadian police procedural on a slightly different path with this short story. As the piece opens, some of the fallout from past cases has made its way up to the Parliament of Canada, with an inquiry into the actions undertaken by Inspector Esa Khattak. In what appears to be an attempted whitewashing by the committee chair, Khattak is forced to deflect the blame and ensure it is clear that the Ministry of Justice authorised...

Well, I have to admit that the only reason I picked this up has been the Reading Women Challenge 2019. I'm not a crime reader and also read mysteries very rarely. So I tried to find something I'm at least interested in (Sarajevo) and that is not too long.I liked the main characters in here, but the plot suffered from the shortness of the book (in fact it is a short story or novella, but don't tell anyone) and the fact that everything just came together very easily, especially in the second part

This is really a novella. The short length did not do the story justice. The characters needed more development and the ‘mystery’ was not well detailed.

Having previously read and LOVED The Unquiet Dead by the same author, I was becoming desperate for my next fix, in the series. I was delighted to see it is scheduled for an October 2017 release via publishers No Exit. I was even more delighted to discover a novella that fits between the two novels. It is possibly the fastest I have ever downloaded an Ebook ever! The novella opens, following on from the previous case in The Unquiet Dead. With the crimes of Christopher Drayton looming over the liv...

This is really a short story rather than a book and some of it doesn't make any sense if you have read the earlier Getty/Khattak books. And it also doesn't make much sense structurally as well. I agree with the sobbing reviewer that the end is moving but there's still a "so what"factor to why the author wrote it.

Too short. Ausma is at her best when she writes about Bosnia.

This is a very short read and mostly a bridge between the second and third books by Khan. There’s no complex plot but a story of a tragic death and I was touched by the story especially reading it right now when the world is focused on Ukraine. It’s a reminder of the beauty of Bosnia and it’s people, and a genocide and suffering the world chose to ignore.

This book takes place between book 2 and book 3, so perhaps should be labeled 2.5 rather than 3.5.

I read this after the 3rd book, but it would have fitted better before it, after the second.It is a gorgeous short story, which looks at element's of Esa's past without being directly about him. It made me cry.

By the numbering system for her works, 3.5, one can deduce that this is a short story or, perhaps, a novella and not a full length piece of work. It does, however, give the reader a bit of background of the series characters. More importantly, and what I find most compelling about Khan's writing, is the history and personal background that she adds regarding the horrific war in Sarajevo. For many western readers, very little is known about what is now known as Bosnia-Herzegovina. I always finish...

As with all of her books, you always come away with more information and perspective on a culture you probably aren’t familiar with. She always describes things so that they almost become cinematic, even using great specificity with meals and customs when it’s pertinent. Had this been a bit longer it probably would have been 5 stars. As the first half is a reminder of what happened last time and the second half is this very sweet story with Esa and his friend, and his problem, which leads down a...

This hard-to-access book (found it as an ebook, for free), is chronologically awkward to place in the Rachel Getty/Esa Khattak series, but it does serve to tie up some loose ends and supply some connective tissue to the other four Getty/Khattak books by Ausma Khan. It is very short -something like 60 pages - perhaps it was meant to be short story written years ago out of which all the other books sprang. All of the books in this series are very good - readable, politically compelling, smart, emp...

Was a bit shorter than I expected, the mystery would have benefited from being stretched out a bit. Still, was wonderful to read about the inquiry into the events of the 2nd book, and am always happy to spend time with Esa and Rachel!

For the 52 Book Club 2021 challenge; an author of colour. Many to chose from but I picked this one to sneak in the #3.5 between #3 and 4 of the Khattak Getty series that were also on my list.Quick review because I am still away on holidays lucky lucky me:- short story isn't the form in which AZK's complexe, culturally rich style shines best- some explanation as to in-between events but not much new information- obviously, AZK's style is agreeable as always.