"This fabulously atmospheric and fiendish historical locked-room crime novel flings you to India in 1951 as Persis Wadia investigates the murder of a prominent politician."
This smart, stimulating historical crime novel takes India’s first female detective and throws her into the middle of political upheaval while challenging her to solve a locked-room murder. I love the Malabar House series, author Vaseem Khan brings the era to vibrant intense life while threading various crimes through the books. Here in the sixth novel, Detective Persis Wadia is banished to a mountainous and dangerous area of India after her last case. She is an absolutely fascinating main character, determined (even dangerously stubborn) yet also vulnerable, she leads the cast brilliantly. I thoroughly enjoyed this leave of absence from Bombay, the history of the time weaves its way through the pages, and as always leaves me wanting to know more and searching through the history books. The social and political climate play out in vivid technicolour, you can feel the tension after independence. The locked-room murder twists into being, and while certain elements are left in full view for you to find, there are still a number of surprises lying in wait. Oh-so rewarding and satisfying, The Edge of Darkness is a wonderful addition to a truly fabulous series.
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India, 1951. After wilfully ignoring orders from her superiors, Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective, has been exiled from Bombay to the wild and mountainous state of Nagaland. As India's first post-Independence election looms, and tensions rise across the country, Persis finds herself banished to the Victoria Hotel, a crumbling colonial-era relic, her career in ruins.
But when a prominent local politician is murdered in his locked room at the Victoria Hotel, his head missing - a case appears quite literally on her doorstep. As the political situation threatens to explode into all-out havoc, Persis has only days to stop a killer operating at the very edge of darkness...
The sixth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House novels and a perfect entry point to the series.
The Edge of Darkness features in the following genres: Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Recommendations, Crime and Mystery, Historical Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Historical crime and mysteries, c 1950 to c 1959, India, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Social issues
The Edge of Darkness is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Edge of Darkness was written by Vaseem Khan and published by Hodder & Stoughton
The Edge of Darkness has 320 pages
Yes it is part of The Malabar House Series series
£19.80
