'This is historical crime fiction at its best -
 a compelling mix of social insight and complex plotting with a 
thoroughly engaging heroine. A highly promising new series' Mail on Sunday Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949 As
 India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector 
Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the 
city's most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after joining 
the force she remains India's first female police detective, mistrusted,
 sidelined and now consigned to the midnight shift. And so, when the 
phone rings to report the murder of prominent English diplomat Sir James
 Herriot, the country's most sensational case falls into her lap. As
 1950 dawns and India prepares to become the world's largest republic, 
Persis, accompanied by Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, 
finds herself investigating a case that is becoming more political by 
the second. Navigating a country and society in turmoil, Persis, smart, 
stubborn and untested in the crucible of male hostility that surrounds 
her, must find a way to solve the murder - whatever the cost.

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