The Last Shot
the warm, witty and utterly addictive cozy mystery with a brilliant female sleuth
Will be published approx. on 7. January 2027
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-3997-4789-9 (ISBN)
Description
Bombay, 1952. When once legendary British film producer, Richard Boorman, working in India's film capital, Bombay, is found murdered, shot dead, his body stuffed into the trunk of his car, Persis, India's first female police detective, is tasked to find his killer.
Working with Archie Blackfinch, a forensic scientist from the Metropolitan Police service in London, she delves into the case, and soon discovers that Boorman's activities in India may not have been confined to the silver screen.
As the investigation progresses, Persis finds herself drawn into a web of danger and deceit, and to a meeting with a man of such unmitigated evil that his very existence has been stricken from history.
In India's city of dreams, it is sometimes nightmares that prevail ...
The seventh rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House novels.
Working with Archie Blackfinch, a forensic scientist from the Metropolitan Police service in London, she delves into the case, and soon discovers that Boorman's activities in India may not have been confined to the silver screen.
As the investigation progresses, Persis finds herself drawn into a web of danger and deceit, and to a meeting with a man of such unmitigated evil that his very existence has been stricken from history.
In India's city of dreams, it is sometimes nightmares that prevail ...
The seventh rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House novels.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
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Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
464 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3997-4789-9 (9781399747899)
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Vaseem Khan
The Last Shot
the warm, witty and utterly addictive cozy mystery with a brilliant female sleuth
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Vaseem Khan is the author of several award-winning crime series including the Baby Ganesh Agency adventures, set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels, set in 1950s Bombay.
His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published in 2015-2020, and has been translated into 17 languages. Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House series, won the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger.
Vaseem has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, the Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Novel of the Year for City of Destruction, the fifth in the Malabar House series. Vaseem is also the author of The Girl in Cell A, a psychological thriller set in small town America, and Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond.
His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published in 2015-2020, and has been translated into 17 languages. Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House series, won the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger.
Vaseem has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, the Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Novel of the Year for City of Destruction, the fifth in the Malabar House series. Vaseem is also the author of The Girl in Cell A, a psychological thriller set in small town America, and Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond.