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Khan Vaseem
City Of Destruction The Gripping And Unputdownable New Malabar House Mystery
City Of Destruction The Gripping And Unputdownable New Malabar House Mystery
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Description: 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 MI 6 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.
Title: City Of Destruction The Gripping And Unputdownable New Malabar House Mystery
Author(s): Khan Vaseem
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Barcode: 9781399707657
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 3/4/2025
Series: The Malabar House Series
Category: Historical Fiction
Description: 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 MI 6 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.
Title: City Of Destruction The Gripping And Unputdownable New Malabar House Mystery
Author(s): Khan Vaseem
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Barcode: 9781399707657
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 3/4/2025
Series: The Malabar House Series
Category: Historical Fiction