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*** WINNER OF THE CWA SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER 2021, and an INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ***

'The leading character is the deftly drawn Persis Wadia, the country's first female detective. She's a wonderful creation and this is a hugely enjoyable book' ANN CLEEVES

'This is historical crime fiction at its best - a compelling mix of social insight and complex plotting with a thoroughly engaging heroine. A highly promising new series' MAIL ON SUNDAY

Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949

As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after joining the force she remains India's first female police detective, mistrusted, sidelined and now consigned to the midnight shift.
And so, when the phone rings to report the murder of prominent English diplomat Sir James Herriot, the country's most sensational case falls into her lap.

As 1950 dawns and India prepares to become the world's largest republic, Persis, accompanied by Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, finds herself investigating a case that is becoming more political by the second. Navigating a country and society in turmoil, Persis, smart, stubborn and untested in the crucible of male hostility that surrounds her, must find a way to solve the murder - whatever the cost.

'A cracking mystery' ELLY GRIFFITHS

'Stylish, thrilling and masterfully told' CHRIS WHITAKER

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336 pagine
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Hodder & Stoughton
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20 agosto 2020
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15.8 x 3.2 x 23.6 cm
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147368546X
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978-1473685468
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Editore ‏ : ‎ Hodder & Stoughton (20 agosto 2020)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
Copertina rigida ‏ : ‎ 336 pagine
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 147368546X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1473685468
Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 500 g
Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 15.8 x 3.2 x 23.6 cm

Posizione nella classifica Bestseller di Amazon: n. 52,186 in Mistero
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- n. 677,072 in Libri in inglese

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I have read the entire Baby Ganesh Agency series by the same author and loved every one of them. It was an easy decision to buy Midnight at Malabar House and it more than lived up to my expectations. Vaseem Khan has the knack of writing vivid and colourful pictures of India with beautifully drawn characters, buildings and places, blending all this into a fast moving, intriguing story that locks you in until you reach the conclusion with great satisfaction and sometimes surprise. During that process, you are treated to various emotions, relationships and usually some fascinating factual or historical background, germane to the story, which gives the reader an insight into some of India's many stories. I love these books and I look forward to seeing more from this series and this new central character, Persis Wadia. If you want to whizz through a book with ease and enjoyment, this is for you. A great holiday read.

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This story is set in India in the late 1940s/early 50s at a time where everything is in flux. The British ruling classes have mostly left and we see a New India emerging, but one that is still coming to terms with the Politics, and religious tensions of Partition.

Add to this heady mix a feisty female police officer trying to make an impression in an all male institution. And, now throw in, at the stroke of midnight, on New Year’s Eve, a murder taking place in a full house of revellers.

The author paints a vivid picture of this new world. A world where privilege and entitlement rubs shoulders with beggars and land workers trying to scrape a living at a time of drought. All the sights, sounds and smells are brought to life for the reader as the murder investigation gets underway.

What Khan conjures up for us is almost a Christie-esque scene - the big house party, full of potential suspects; the gruesome murder; the victim - minus his trousers and the final scene where the police officer lures her suspects to gather for the final showdown where the killer is finally revealed.

It is a beautifully crafted book, with an almost comfortable, ‘Sunday evening TV’ feel about it. Interesting story, characters and dialogue. I enjoyed reading it.

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Mr. Robert Ward

Disappointing: standard story line and below average writing.

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I bought this because of the good reviews in the newspapers, but I was very disappointed. Standard story line and a little contrived in parts. The heavy handed political references didn't help. Also, I didn't warm to the main character. On top of all that I thought that the writing was "clunky" and a bit amateurish. There are many better books than this - don't waste your time.

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I am concerned about coincidences between this book and Sujata Massey's Perveen Mistry series of novels which were published a couple of years before Vaseem Khan's.

Perveen is 'India's first woman lawyer'. Persis Wadia is 'India's first woman detective'.
Perveen and Persis are both based in Bombay.
Both are Parsee women - a convenient way to explain away their willingness to be so unconventional it would seem; a part of local society but also apart from local society.
Both fight the sexism and prejudices of their colleagues.
Both are tenacious in their determination to find justice.
Both have unfortunate past love affairs.
The only key difference is that Perveen's stories predate Persis Wadia's by around 30 years.

I know that trends in writing are not unusual but the coincidences between these two series are more striking than most.

But................let's put that aside and get on with the book.

Pluses:
1. The setting, just after the end of Empire, is an interesting one, as is our dead victim.
There's still a great deal of festering resentment to unpack and examine. Most of the Brits have gone home but our dead man has been investigating crimes associated with Partition. Might he be a 'good egg' who really cares about India, or will Persis find he's rather more out for himself? He's murdered at his own New Year's Eve party, left without his trousers, with a slit throat and the burning embers of some hastily incinerated papers in his fireplace.

2. The exploration of not only Partition in 1947 but also unrest in the Punjab arising from the infamous Jallianwallahbagh Massacre back in 1919 is to be commended. There aren't enough books looking at those important events and the massacre and its impact on one of the characters is handled in a very interesting way. The sins of the father are still very much visited on the son. Khan also manages to squeeze in murderous behaviour in Burma during WW2. I applaud the history lessons that he offers.

3. After a very slow start, the book picks up pace in the second half and the plot thickens considerably. I was very close to spotting the killer but not quite there - right reasons, wrong person. I always appreciate a story that logically leads us to a rational conclusion

Cons:
1. Persis is not a convincing female protagonist. There's very little about her that suggests the author really has any idea how to write a female character. Aside from the odd bit of flirtation with her British side-kick, you could pretty much go through the book, switch the pronouns and replace her with a man. I didn't buy her as an authentic character at all.

2. The first half is a drag. It's a slow plod around Bombay as we're introduced to a wide cast of characters, none of whom really get going until over halfway through.

3. The tactic of "let's give the case to the least experienced detective who's sure to screw it up but then again, maybe not" is straight out of the book of classic procedural devices for Indian crime novels. It popped up a few days ago in the last book I read (The Waiter by Ajay Chowdhury) and it was so obvious as to be almost insulting.

In short, it's a mixed batch of a book. I will read the next two - possibly in the wrong order - and see if they develop further. I'd prefer my 'first woman detective' to be a bit more three dimensional. Let's see if she improves with familiarity.

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aljbri

High hopes dashed

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 19 aprile 2021

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I was looking forward to this book but it is oddly unsatisfactory. The plot is creaky, the characters two dimensional. Some odd errors, ‘Dr Zhivago’ did not hit the shelves till 1957, a passing reference to a married woman being a British civil servant, but what about the marriage bar? A real shame. The period is certainly worth exploring in fiction but in the end I found this novel tiresome.

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