Abir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of the Wyndham & Banerjee series of crime novels set in Raj-era India. His debut, A Rising Man, won the CWA Endeavour Dagger for best historical crime novel of 2017, was shortlisted for the MWA...

Now in paperback, this is the second novel set in India in the 1920s, featuring Sergeant Banerjee of the Calcutta Police Force, following "A Rising Man". 'Even better than his first... I can't imagine anyone failing to enjoy it.' "Daily...

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. von Mukherjee, Abir