Early next year, Hodder & Stoughton are due to publish the seventh novel in Vaseem Khan‘s excellent Malabar House series, The Last Shot. I’m currently reading (and very much enjoying) the fifth novel in the series, City of Destruction, and should easily be caught up before this latest novel releases. Really looking forward to it. Here’s the synopsis:
Bombay, 1952. When once legendary British film producer, Richard Boorman, working in India’s film capital, Bombay, is found murdered, shot dead, his body stuffed into the trunk of his car, Persis, India’s first female police detective, is tasked to find his killer.
Working with Archie Blackfinch, a forensic scientist from the Metropolitan Police service in London, she delves into the case, and soon discovers that Boorman’s activities in India may not have been confined to the silver screen.
As the investigation progresses, Persis finds herself drawn into a web of danger and deceit, and to a meeting with a man of such unmitigated evil that his very existence has been stricken from history.
In India’s city of dreams, it is sometimes nightmares that prevail…
Vaseem Khan’s The Last Shot is due to be published by Hodder & Stoughton, on January 7th, 2027.
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