Böcker av Abir Mukherjee

'An unmissable series' The Times'Captivating, moving and exciting, it's historical fiction at its finest' Sunday ExpressIn the Burning Ghats of Calcutta where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear.The body is that of a popular patron of the arts, a man who was, by all accounts, beloved by all: so what was the motive for his murder? Despite being out of favour with the Imperial Police Force, Detective Sam Wyndham is assigned to the case and finds himself thrust into the glamorous world of Indian cinema.Meanwhile Surendranath Banerjee, recently returned from Europe after three years spent running from the fallout of his last case, is searching for a missing photographer; a trailblazing woman at the forefront of the profession. When Suren discovers that the vanished woman is linked to Sam's murder investigation, the two men find themselves working together once again - but will Wyndham and Banerjee be able to put their differences aside to solve the case?'Abir Mukherjee is doing something uniquely different in the crime genre...breathtaking' Peter May, Sunday Times bestseller, on The Shadows of MenFrom the critically-acclaimed author of HUNTED comes the next instalment in the popular Wyndham and Banerjee series.

Captain Sam Wyndham and his sidekick Surrender-Not Banerjee are back, in this mystery of 1920s Calcutta taking place against a backdrop of Gandhi's non-cooperation movement and the fight for Indian independence.

Sansom`This vivid murder mystery moves at breakneck speeds' Sunday Times`A Rising Man is a whodunit set in the social and political tinderbox of 1919 Calcutta - a thought-provoking rollercoaster' Ian Rankin, Observer`One of the most exciting debut novels I've read in years' Val McDermid

Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Daily Telegraph The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competitionCaptain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta.