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yellowdogintexas

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31. Just started a new Vasheem Khan mystery
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 01:35 PM
Feb 2023

The Lost Man of Bombay

Bombay, 1950
When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun, he is christened the Ice Man by the national media. Who is he? How long has he been there? Why was he killed?

As Inspector Persis Wadia and Metropolitan Police criminalist Archie Blackfinch investigate the case in Bombay, they uncover a trail left behind by the enigmatic Ice Man - a trail leading directly into the dark heart of conspiracy.

Meanwhile, two new murders grip the city. Is there a serial killer on the loose, targeting Europeans?

The author develops great characters and plot and the atmosphere of India really comes through.

These are his serious books. For a ton (literally) of fun, reat the Baby Ganesh series. Start with The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra (A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation Book 1)

On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries.

The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant.

As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought.

And he soon learns that when the going gets tough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs. . .

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