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Crime & mystery, Historical mysteries, Thriller / suspense
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Hodder Paperbacks
- Paperback Apr 12, 2022 | 9781529341096 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jul 13, 2021 | 9781529341058 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Oct 26, 2021 | 9781529341065 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Apr 12, 2022 | 9781529341096 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jul 13, 2021 | 9781529341058 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Oct 26, 2021 | 9781529341065 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Apr 12, 2022 | 9781529341096 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Jul 13, 2021 | 9781529341058 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Oct 26, 2021 | 9781529341065 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
The second brilliant novel in the highly acclaimed Malabar House series featuring Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective.
A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.
Bombay, 1950
For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia's desk.
Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis - together with English forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch - is soon on the trail. But then they discover the first body.
As the death toll mounts it becomes evident that someone else is also pursuing this priceless artefact and will stop at nothing to possess it . . .
Harking back to an era of darkness, this second thriller in the Malabar House series pits Persis, once again, against her peers, a changing India, and an evil of limitless intent.
Gripping, immersive, and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is historical fiction at its finest.
Praise for The Dying Day
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This is a crime novel for everyone; for those who love traditional mysteries there are clues, codes and ciphers, but it also had a harder edge and a post-war darkness. A brilliant second outing for Persis Wadia - Ann Cleeves
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The Da Vinci Code meets post-Independence India. I'd be surprised if I read a better book this year - M.W. Craven
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Persis is brave, admirable, complicated and maddening, and is one of the few superlative and original characters emerging from modern literature - On-Magazine
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As this charming series continues, readers will be cheering [Persis's] successes - SHOTS
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A thoroughly enjoyable yarn, complete with atmospheric setting, intricate puzzle-solving and much derring-do - Mail on Sunday
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The second in this excellent series . . . a delicious treat of a historical crime novel - The Observer
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Early indications are that Vaseem Khan has struck gold by setting detective novels in 1950s Bombay. And that is why this is a gem of a novel
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- The Eastern Eye
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A wonderful, pacy, literary mystery - Steve Cavanagh
Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan is the author of two crime series set in India: the Baby Ganesh Agency series, and the Malabar House historical crime novels.
His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was a Times bestseller and has been translated into 16 languages. Midnight at Malabar House won the CWA Historical Fiction Dagger in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
Vaseem was born in London, but spent a decade working in India as a management consultant.
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