City of Destruction

The gripping and unputdownable new Malabar House mystery

Vaseem Khan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2024
Hodder & Stoughton (Verlag)
978-1-3997-0765-7 (ISBN)

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The brilliant new Persis and Archie mystery, from the highly acclaimed and award-winning author of MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSE.

'Vaseem Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely. I couldn't love this series more' CHRIS WHITAKER
'Historical fiction at its finest' MAIL ON SUNDAY

From the award-winning author of MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSE and THE LOST MAN OF BOMBAY comes a brilliant new mystery featuring the inimitable Persis Wadia.

Bombay, 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate the divisive new defence minister, a man calling for war with India's new post-Independence neighbours.

With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down the assassin's co-conspirators - aided by agents from Britain's MI6 security service - Persis is quickly relegated to the sidelines. But then she is given a second case, the burned body of an unidentified white man found on a Bombay beach. As she pursues both investigations - with and without official sanction - she soon finds herself headed to the country's capital, New Delhi, a city where ancient and modern India openly clash.

Meanwhile, Persis's colleague, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life as all around him the country tears itself apart in the prelude to war...

Vaseem Khan's acclaimed Baby Ganesh Agency crime series won the Shamus Award in the US, with The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020, now translated into 16 languages. The first novel in the Malabar House series, Midnight at Malabar House, won the CWA Historical Dagger 2021 and was shortlisted for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award. Vaseem lives in London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Malabar House Series
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
ISBN-10	1-3997-0765-5 / 1399707655
ISBN-13	978-1-3997-0765-7 / 9781399707657
Zustand	Neuware