City of Destruction
the warm, witty and utterly addictive cozy mystery with a brilliant female sleuth
$33.42
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
23 December 2025
Summary
‘Vaseem Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely. I couldn’t love this series more’ CHRIS WHITAKER
‘Historical fiction at its finest’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
From the award-winning author of MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSE and THE LOST MAN OF BOMBAY comes a brilliant new mystery featuring the inimitable Persis Wadia.
Bombay, 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India’s first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399707695 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399707698 |
| Author: | Vaseem Khan |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 23 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 28mm |
| Series: | The Malabar House Series |
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A book to cancel plans for * Closer *The fifth of the Malabar House series is as charming, disarming and engrossing as ever * Heat *[an] engaging, thoughtful novel * Irish Times *
About The Author
Vaseem Khan
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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