CAN A WHITE MAN RECEIVE JUSTICE IN POST-COLONIAL INDIA?

BOMBAY, 1950

James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby’s father forces a new investigation into the killing. As Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police investigates, with the help of Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, she uncovers a possible link to a second case: the brutal murder of an African-American G.I. during the Calcutta Killings of 1946.

Are the cases connected? And if Whitby didn’t murder Mazumdar, then who did?

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Praise for the Malabar House series

‘A twisting plot and an intriguing cast of characters, together with vivid glimpses of the vibrant, complex world of post-Independence Bombay – and a narrative that thunders along with the pace and drama of an elephant on the rampage’ ~ANDREW TAYLOR

‘Witty and evocative’ ~JANICE HALLETT

‘The best historical thriller of the year’ ~DAILY EXPRESS

‘[An] intelligent and intriguing series’~ LITERARY REVIEW

‘Vaseem Khan has that rare ability to transport you wholly to a bygone time, and he does so with such skill and charm’ ~CHRIS WHITAKER

‘Hugely entertaining… If only all period procedurals were as good as this’~ THE TIMES

‘A vivid portrait of a society remaking itself in the new era of independence’~ MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘An intriguing mystery, a wonderfully realized historical setting and characters that make you fall in love with them’ ~STEVE CAVANAGH

‘Historical crime fiction at its sharpest” ~SUNDAY TIMES

‘Think Mick Herron in Bombay’~ THE TIMES, AUDIOBOOK REVIEW