City of Destruction: The gripping and unputdownable new Persis and Archie mystery
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By Vaseem Khan
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‘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, 1950.
A political rally ends in tragedy when Persis kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate India’s divisive Home Minister, a man calling for war with neighbouring Pakistan.
With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down his co-conspirators, Persis is given a second case when the burned body of an unidentified white man is found on a Bombay beach. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life, as all around him the country tears itself apart as a prelude to war…
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Set in Bombay in 1951, this is Book 4 of the Malabar House series. Persis Wadia (India’s first female police detective) shoots dead a gunman who is attempting to assassinate the new defence minister. Excluded from the subsequent investigation she is given another case – the burned body of a white man found on a beach. But, being Persis, she won’t accept being sidelined, and soon is heading off to New Delhi in pursuit of answers to both crimes. It's a complicated plot but just as gripping and interesting as the other books in this series. Persis is a likeable protagonist and the descriptions of post-partition India are evocative. I really enjoyed this.
Review by Mo, Oundle Crime
