London. John Murray. 2019. 320pp, paperback. Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an..... More
United Kingdom: Cornerstone, 2011. 331pp, paperback. Early one morning, on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi, a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when a 20-foot apparition of the Goddess Kali apppears, and strikes one of their number dead. The goddess disappears without trace..... More
United Kingdom: Cornerstone, 2014. 310pp, paperback. The wonderful fourth outing for Delhi detective Vish Puri - named 'the Indian Hercule Poirot' by the Financial Times. When India's Love Commandos rescue a young woman from a high-caste family who has been forbidden from marrying an untouchable, she looks set to live..... More
London. Mulholland Books & Hodder. 2018. 361pp, paperback. In the enchanting new Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick go undercover to investigate a murder at Mumbai's grandest hotel. For a century the iconic Grand Raj Palace Hotel has welcomed the world's elite. From film stars to..... More
Melbourne. Brass Monkey Books. 2011. 156pp, paperback. A mother farewells her dead children on an unusual pilgrimage; a wife’s affair with an old schoolfriend brings unexpected joy and pain; a young domestic worker rediscovers the husband she thought she had lost. Mridula Koshy tells the stories of ordinary women in..... More
London. Harvill Secker. 2019. 417pp, paperback. **From the winner of the 2017 CWA Historical Dagger Award and the 2018 Wilbur Smith Award** **'A skilfully blended dual narrative- twice the intrigue, twice the fun. Mukherjee is at the top of his game' Mick Herron, author of the Jackson Lamb series, on..... More
London. Vintage. 2018. 374pp, paperback. The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant `Surrender-not' Banerjee, they discover a kingdom riven..... More
London. Vintage. 2019. 332pp, paperback. SELECTED AS WATERSTONES' THRILLER OF THE MONTH, JULY 2019 CHOSEN BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AS ONE OF 100 BEST CRIME NOVELS SINCE 1945 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 CWA GOLD DAGGER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SAPERE HISTORICAL DAGGER 'Smoke and Ashes is Abir Mukherjee's best book..... More
United Kingdom. Penguin Books Ltd., 2015. 339pp, paperback. This title was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016. Mirza Waheed's extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir. In an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz..... More
