Laury Silvers

Laury Silvers is a North American Muslim, raised in the United States but finally at home in Canada. She writes historical mysteries set in medieval Muslim lands and contemporary thrillers set in Toronto under the name "Jayne Green."

The Ghazi Ammar Medieval Mysteries are the spin-off series from The Sufi Mysteries Quartet. History moves into the background and mystery moves up front, Ammar and Zaytuna trade quips and solve crimes in medieval Baghdad.

The Toronto Thrillers, written under the name Jayne Green are emotionally layered and plot-twisty, and on the left side of things politically. No need to sell your emotional or political soul to enjoy a trashy thriller. Disgraced out now.

The Sufi Mysteries Quartet are big-screen cinematic, wild, romantic, spiritually melodramatic and are so historically reliable in detail and interpretation, they are used in university courses and are considered by some to be fictional academic writing in themselves. Thousands of readers love them, why not you?

Rat City is a medieval noir novella set in an alternative medieval West Asian world. It is found in Revenge in Three. Three Muslim Novelists re-interpret The Count of Monte Cristo. I love it, but my fans who prefer my novels with characters on the arc of redemption won't find that here. Be warned. Derya Mack is a post-menopausal private detective with no shits left to give.

Silvers' research and publications as a historian of religion focused on early Islam, early Sufism, and early pious and Sufi women. She taught at Skidmore College and the University of Toronto. Silvers also published work engaging Islam and Gender in North America in academic journals and popular venues, was actively involved in the woman-led prayer movement, and co-founded the Toronto Unity Mosque. She has since retired from academia and activism and hopes her novels continue her scholarship and activism in their own way. She lives in Toronto under Treaty 13. Most social media platforms @laurylsilvers.