BREAKING NEWS! My next novel, out in August 2020, will be Midnight at Malabar House. This is the start of a new series set in 1950 in Bombay, India and introducing Inspector Persis Wadia, India’s first female police detective. Find out more here. Meanwhile…

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News! The paperback of the fifth full-length Chopra novel, Bad Day at the Vulture Club, is now out. Get your copy from all good indie bookshops, major book retailers or online.

News! Hodder have agreed to publish my seventh and eighth novels, books 2 and 3 in the Malabar House series. You can find details in the Books section.

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Welcome to Vaseem Khan’s website. The Baby Ganesh series is set in Mumbai, India. The lead protagonist is Inspector Chopra, forced into early retirement from the Mumbai police force, but determined to continue pursuing justice, whilst also struggling with the  dilemma of taking in a one-year-old baby elephant. The first in the series, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year, a top 10 bestseller in The Times Saturday review and and Amazon Best Debut. It has been optioned for film by Cinestaan.