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Detective Aunty

Book 1 of the Detective Aunty Investigates Series

by Uzma Jalaluddin

After her husband’s unexpected death twelve months earlier, Kausar Khan never thought she’d receive another phone call as heartbreaking—until her thirty-something daughter, Sana, phones to say she’s been arrested for killing the unpopular landlord of her clothing boutique. Determined to help her child, Kausar heads to Toronto for the first time in nearly twenty years.

Returning to the Golden Crescent suburb where she raised her children and where her daughter still lives, Kausar finds that the thriving neighborhood she remembers has changed. The murder of Sana’s landlord is only the latest in a wave of local crimes that have gone unsolved.

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Publisher: HarperCollins

Date: 2025

ISBN: 9781443472845

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Sub-genres: Cozy , Women Sleuths

About The Author

Uzma Jalaluddin is a Canadian novelist, playwright, public speaker, and teacher known for contemporary romance and mystery novels centred on Muslim, South Asian, and Canadian characters. Her debut, Ayesha At Last (2018), reimagining Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, won multiple honours and was optioned for film.

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