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The Shadow
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  • Published: 13 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529943122
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Narrator: Layla Chowdhury
  • RRP: $34.99

The Shadow

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12 May 2026
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13 Mar 2025
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13 Mar 2025
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Detective Kamil and restaurant owner Anjoli go to Mumbai to solve the ritualistic killing of a British construction worker found with eighteen arrows embedded in his body. For readers of Robert Galbraith, Anthony Horowitz and M. W. Craven.

A ritual killing. An ancient curse. What's myth... and what's murder?

After a bruising encounter with a terrorist group, Detective Kamil Rahman has decided to hand in his resignation to the Met and set up a detective agency with his friend Anjoli. But when his boss asks him to go to India to investigate the murder of a British engineer who was found with eighteen arrows stuck in his body, Kamil agrees to take the case, as long as Anjoli can accompany him.

When they arrive in Mumbai, they find someone is on a gruesome killing spree, striking down those connected to the engineer in increasingly macabre ways. Meanwhile, an old friend of Kamil’s gets in touch to beg for his help: he believes his family are cursed, and that he is going to die on his 47th birthday, just like his father and grandfather before him.

As the body count rises, Kamil is torn between solving a very real murder case and protecting his friend from a grisly – if far-fetched – fate. Can he catch a killer and prevent an ancient curse before more people lose their lives?
  • Published: 13 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529943122
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Narrator: Layla Chowdhury
  • RRP: $34.99
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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. Eden Falls, his first standalone thriller, was published in July 2026. 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 Patriot is the latest book in the series.
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Praise for The Shadow

Ever since I discovered Ajay Chowdhury's wonderful Kamil Rahman detective novels, they have offered a feast of great stories, vivid characters, mouth-watering food and fascinating insight into the world of Bengali Muslims in London's Brick Lane. I love his mix of humane feeling, romantic comedy and very modern plotting.

Amanda Craig