*As seen on The One Show*
*A Times and Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year*
'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish' ABIR MUKHERJEE
HAS SOMEONE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER?
On the verge of a four-billion-dollar deal, a tech entrepreneur from Shoreditch is found dead in a construction site, which leads to the discovery of three skeletons over a hundred years old.
But as fresh bodies turn up, can Detective Kamil - along with his friend Anjoli - prevent another murder?
Desperate to solve his first case for the Met, will Kamil put his reputation on the line... then cross it?
*The thrilling new Kamil Rahman mystery, THE SPY, is available to pre-order now!*
Praise for the Detective Kamil Rahman series:
'Hugely entertaining' ANN CLEEVES
'The Detective has all the ingredients for a great crime series' SUN
'[Kamil is a] likeable inspector . . . We shall hear much more of him' DAILY MAIL
'An elegantly constructed thriller' THE TIMES
'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES
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Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children's book - Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco.
The Waiter (Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures.The Cook (Guardian Top Crime Books of the Year) was published in May 2022 to excellent reviews and deals with the issue of homelessness. The third book in the series - The Detective (Sunday Times Top Crime Books of the Year) - is about government surveillance and AI. The Spy (Longlisted Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing), the fourth book, sees Kamil infiltrate a terrorist cell. The Shadow (A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month) is the latest book in the series.