{"product_id":"9781399707657-city-of-destruction-the-gripping-and-unputdownable-new-malabar-house-mystery","title":"City Of Destruction The Gripping And Unputdownable New Malabar House Mystery","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: City Of Destruction The Gripping And Unputdownable New Malabar House Mystery\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Khan Vaseem\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781399707657\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 352 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 3\/4\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: The Malabar House Series\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Historical Fiction","brand":"Khan Vaseem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51333643600177,"sku":"IN-G-9781399707657","price":31.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781399707657-city-of-destruction-the-gripping-and-unputdownable-new-malabar-house-mystery","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}