Death of a Lesser God by Vaseem Khan - ISBN: 9781399707640
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Post-colonial India ablaze: Justice, prejudice, and deadly secrets collide.

Death of a Lesser God

the warm, witty and utterly addictive cozy mystery with a brilliant female sleuth

$32.80

  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    11 June 2024

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Summary

*** SHORTLISTED FOR HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS ***

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame.

‘Beautifully written and a fascinating insight into the turbulence of post independence India’ PETER MAY

‘A sumptuous, brutal, heart-stop…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399707640
ISBN-10:1399707647
Author:Vaseem Khan
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:11 June 2024
Weight:259g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 36mm
Series:The Malabar House Series
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Critics Review

Beautifully written and a fascinating insight into the turbulence of post independence India * Peter May *

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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