
The Last Shot
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'Persis Wadia, denizen of India's own Slough House' Alis Hawkins
'Hugely entertaining, devilishly clever' Antonia Hodgson
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 ...
'Historical fiction at its finest' Mail on Sunday
'Brilliant!' Ann Cleeves
'Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely' Chris Whitaker
'Persis is a brilliant creation and this is historical fiction at its finest' Daily Mirror
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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.
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