The Detective

A RITUAL KILLING. AN ANCIENT CURSE. WHAT'S MYTH... AND WHAT'S MURDER?<BR><BR>'A slick, masterfully plotted, white-knuckle ride of a read,' A.A. CHAUDHURI<BR>'A highly enjoyable and hugely entertaining read' NILESHA CHAUVET<BR><BR>After a bruising encounter with a terrorist group, Detective Kamil Rahman has resigned from 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.<BR><BR>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 begs for his help breaking the curse he believes his family is under.<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>Praise for the Detective Kamil Rahman novels:<BR><BR>'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES<BR>'Hugely entertaining' ANN CLEEVES<BR>'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish' ABIR MUKHERJEE<BR><BR>READERS LOVE KAMIL AND ANJOLI:<BR>'Keeps getting better and better'<BR>'In Kamil and Anjoli, Ajay Chowdhury has created a modern day Holmes and Watson'<BR>'Full of intrigue and twists and turns'

When Aisha's husband vanishes in plain sight, she is pulled into a nightmare to find him in this race-against-time tech thriller...'A thought-provoking and pacy thriller' Clare Mackintosh 'A clever, timely and thrilling page turner' Jo Callaghan 'Outstanding' Abir Mukherjee'A first-rate thriller' William Shaw'Pulsating' Vaseem KhanAfter the murder of his best friend, newlyweds Adam and Aisha cut their honeymoon short. But just as they are about to board a flight home from Delhi, Adam disappears at the airport - seemingly kidnapped - leaving Aisha stranded without her passport, her phone, or answers.When the FBI and India's intelligence agency begin interrogating her, it becomes chillingly clear they know far more about Adam than she ever did. Her only clue is his final, haunting message: I'm sorry.Thousands of miles away, Sara Wolf, a scientist stuck on a dead-end project at Princeton, receives a message she never expected from her former lover. It contains two words: Help her.Bound together by suspicion, rivalry, and a man they both love, Aisha and Sara are forced into an uneasy alliance. Decoding Adam's clues, they follow a trail that leads them across the United States - into a shadow world of weaponised AI, tech billionaires, and a secret no one is meant to find.Eden Falls is a gripping, high-stakes thriller that spans continents and asks how far we will go - and who we will trust - when the truth can destroy everything.READERS ARE LOVING EDEN FALLS: 'Brilliant. Intelligent. Nailbiting.''One of the best speculative thrillers I've read in a long time.''Futuristic, believable and thrilling . . . This absolutely has to be made into a film or a tv series.''An absolute page turner of a novel!' 'Very hard to put this one down'

'Thrilling . . . a terrific series' Sunday Times<BR><BR>Someone has an appetite for murder...<BR><BR>Kamil Rahman used to be a detective in Kolkata. Now he's a cook in London's East End. Yet trouble still knows where to find him.<BR><BR>Kamil Rahman thought his crimefighting days were behind him. But when a woman he knows is murdered and the police arrest the most convenient suspect, he hangs up his apron and employs his detective skills once more to find the true killer.<BR><BR>Meanwhile, restaurant manager Anjoli is volunteering with a homeless charity, where she notices a sudden troubling increase in unexplained deaths among people sleeping rough in and around Brick Lane. With the council and police uninterested, she starts an investigation of her own.<BR><BR>Kamil and Anjoli's cases seem unrelated, but as the duo dig deeper, they discover connections that stretch from London to Lahore. Together they take on the indifference of the authorities.<BR><BR>If the Met won't find the murderers, then Kamil and Anjoli will.<BR><BR>'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish... a refreshing and welcome addition to the world of detective fiction' Abir Mukherjee

ONE MISSING BOY. ONE MAN UNDERCOVER. A WHOLE NATION AT RISK.'The plot races to a splendidly dramatic ending; Chowdhury's writing is compelling and compassionate' Guardian'Chowdhury is brilliant at...unexpected plot twists, while highlighting the conflicts experienced by characters with a foot in more than one culture' Sunday Times Detective Kamil Rahman is working for the Metropolitan Police when he gets the call from MI5. They've received intelligence of a terrorist plot, and it's Kamil they need.Posing as a disaffected cop, and working back in his friend Anjoli's beloved restaurant on Brick Lane, Kamil attempts to infiltrate the cell.But when a young boy goes missing, Kamil finds the disappearance is linked to his case. What he uncovers leads him halfway across the world to Kashmir, and face to face with an old nemesis...From Ajay Chowdhury, the award-winning author of THE WAITER, comes the thrilling new Detective Kamil Rahman mystery that's his toughest assignment yet...*This is the fourth in the Detective Kamil Rahman series, though each novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone*READERS LOVE THE SPY:'WOW! The Spy is the perfect mix of contemporary politics, humour, action and romance''In Kamal and Anjoli, Ajay Chowdhury has created a modern day Holmes and Watson''Full of intrigue and twists and turns which gave an insight into the fight against terrorism'Praise for the Detective Kamil Rahman series:'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES'Hugely entertaining' ANN CLEEVES'Rip-roaring' ABIR MUKHERJEE

*As seen on The One Show** A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH *'Hugely entertaining' - ANN CLEEVES'An outstanding debut' - SUNDAY TIMES____________________________________Ex-detective Kamil Rahman is embroiled in a case that might just change his life - for better or for worse . . . Disgraced detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the peace of his new life is soon shattered. The day Kamil caters an extravagant party, the powerful host, Rakesh, is found dead in his swimming pool.Suspicion falls on Rakesh's young and glamorous new wife, and Kamil is called to investigate for the family. Kamil and Anjoli, his boss's daughter, prove a winning team - yet as the case progresses, and their relationship grows, the events of Kamil's past threaten to catch up with him . . .____________________________________'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish' - ABIR MUKHERJEE'This detective waiter 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

*As seen on The One Show*<BR><BR><BR>*A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year*<BR><BR>'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish' ABIR MUKHERJEE<BR><BR>HAS SOMEONE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER?<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>But as fresh bodies turn up, can Detective Kamil - along with his friend Anjoli - prevent another murder?<BR><BR>Desperate to solve his first case for the Met, will Kamil put his reputation on the line... then cross it?<BR><BR>*The thrilling new Kamil Rahman mystery, THE SPY, is available to pre-order now!*<BR><BR>Praise for the Detective Kamil Rahman series:<BR><BR>'Hugely entertaining' ANN CLEEVES<BR><BR>'The Detective has all the ingredients for a great crime series' SUN<BR><BR>'[Kamil is a] likeable inspector . . . We shall hear much more of him' DAILY MAIL<BR><BR>'An elegantly constructed thriller' THE TIMES<BR><BR>'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES

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