The Edge of Darkness
the warm, witty and utterly addictive cozy mystery with a brilliant female sleuth
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
20 January 2026
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399752138 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399752138 |
| Author: | Vaseem Khan |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 20 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 411g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 152mm x 30mm |
| Series: | The Malabar House Series |
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Critics Review
Historical fiction at its finest * Mail on Sunday *
Brilliant! – Ann Cleeves
Vaseem Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely. I couldn’t love this series more – Chris Whitaker
Persis is a brilliant creation and this is historical fiction at its finest * Daily Mirror *
Persis Wadia, denizen of India’s own Slough House - Malabar House in Bombay - has been further sidelined. She is a brilliant creation… With a satisfying backdrop of little-known aspects of newly-independent India’s history and the ever-present tension with the remaining British colonists, this is a richly satisfying book at many levels – Alis Hawkins
About The Author
Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan is the author of several award-winning crime series including the Baby Ganesh Agency adventures, set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels, set in 1950s Bombay.
His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published in 2015-2020, and has been translated into 17 languages. Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House series, won the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger.
Vaseem has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, the Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Novel of the Year for City of Destruction, the fifth in the Malabar House series. Vaseem is also the author of The Girl in Cell A, a psychological thriller set in small town America, and Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond.
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