The Dying Day Synopsis
A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.
Bombay, 1950
For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia's desk.
Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis - together with English forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch - is soon on the trail. But then they discover the first body.
As the death toll mounts it becomes evident that someone else is also pursuing this priceless artefact and will stop at nothing to possess it . . .
Harking back to an era of darkness, this second thriller in the Malabar House series pits Persis, once again, against her peers, a changing India, and an evil of limitless intent.
Gripping, immersive, and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is historical fiction at its finest.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781529341096 |
| Publication date: |
17th March 2022 |
| Author: |
Vaseem Khan |
| Publisher: |
Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
347 pages |
| Series: |
Malabar House |
| Primary Genre |
Thriller and Suspense
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Vaseem Khan Press Reviews
This is a crime novel for everyone; for those who love traditional mysteries there are clues, codes and ciphers, but it also had a harder edge and a post-war darkness. A brilliant second outing for Persis Wadia - Ann Cleeves
The Da Vinci Code meets post-Independence India. I'd be surprised if I read a better book this year - M.W. Craven
Persis is brave, admirable, complicated and maddening, and is one of the few superlative and original characters emerging from modern literature - On-Magazine
As this charming series continues, readers will be cheering [Persis's] successes - SHOTS
A thoroughly enjoyable yarn, complete with atmospheric setting, intricate puzzle-solving and much derring-do - Mail on Sunday
The second in this excellent series . . . a delicious treat of a historical crime novel - The Observer
Early indications are that Vaseem Khan has struck gold by setting detective novels in 1950s Bombay. And that is why this is a gem of a novel - The Eastern Eye
A wonderful, pacy, literary mystery - Steve Cavanagh
A hugely entertaining, devilishly clever and immersive murder mystery - Antonia Hodgson
Vaseem Khan is at the height of his powers in The Dying Day . . . First-rate story telling from a first-rate writer - Daily Express Books of the Year, chosen by Imran Mahmood
Reminiscent of some of the classics of crime fiction - Crime Review
About Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan first saw an elephant lumbering down the middle of the road in 1997 when he arrived in India to work as a management consultant. It was the most unusual thing he had ever encountered and served as the inspiration behind his series of crime novels. He returned to the UK in 2006 and now works at University College London for the Department of Security and Crime Science where he is astonished on a daily basis by the way modern science is being employed to tackle crime. Elephants are third on his list of passions, first and second being great literature and cricket, not always in that order.
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