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The Detective
  • Published: 21 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529919615
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $22.99

The Detective

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The third novel in the Detective Kamil Rahman Mystery series, THE DETECTIVE follows Kamil on his first case for the Met Police, while his former boss and restaurant manager, Anjoli tries to solve a century-old murder.

*Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month*

'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish' ABIR MUKHERJEE


A BRUTAL KILLING HAS UNCOVERED A COLD CASE. 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?
  • Published: 21 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529919615
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Ajay Chowdhury

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.
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Praise for The Detective

Hugely entertaining

Ann Cleeves

An entertaining story that ranges across love, murder and an intriguing family tree

Sun

[Kamil is a] likeable inspector . . . We shall hear much more of him

Daily Mail

An elegantly constructed thriller

The Times

Outstanding

Sunday Times

[An] enthralling new novel... Chowdhury's dazzlingly clever plot brings together the East End's history and its present incarnation as home to some of the country's most innovative technology

Sunday Times, *Crime Book of the Month*

Dazzlingly clever plot

Sunday Times

Chowdhury brings his own expertise in modern tech to the plot, combining it with hot button history, and a biting wit. The series goes from strength to strength

Vaseem Khan

A rip roaring crime novel

The New Zealand Listener

A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish

Abir Mukherjee

Ajay Chowdhury’s crime novels set in the East End are vivid portraits of modern life.

Sunday Times, Best Books of the Year

Ajay Chowdhury’s crime novels set in the East End are vivid portraits of modern life. His panoramic new novel has Inspector Kamil Rahman working for the Met Police, investigating the murder of the chief executive of a tech company while discovering the area’s history of Jewish immigration and lethal antisemitism.

Sunday Times, Best Books of the Year