The Shadow
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:13th Mar '25
Should be back in stock very soon
A RITUAL KILLING. AN ANCIENT CURSE. WHAT'S MYTH... AND WHAT'S MURDER?
'A slick, masterfully plotted, white-knuckle ride of a read,' A.A. CHAUDHURI
'A highly enjoyable and hugely entertaining read' NILESHA CHAUVET
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.
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.
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?
Praise for the Detective Kamil Rahman novels:
'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES
'Hugely entertaining' ANN CLEEVES
'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish' ABIR MUKHERJEE
READERS LOVE KAMIL AND ANJOLI:
‘Keeps getting better and better’
‘In Kamil and Anjoli, Ajay Chowdhury has created a modern day Holmes and Watson’
‘Full of intrigue and twists and turns’
A slick, masterfully plotted, white-knuckle ride of a read, packed with action, intrigue and well-drawn characters that get under your skin, and a clever twist in the tale you won’t see coming. Chowdhury’s beautiful prose and exquisite descriptions will sweep you away to Mumbai’s streets and activate all your senses, while the cleverly crafted, hugely suspenseful plotline full of red herrings, twists and turns will keep you guessing right up to the nail-biting denouement. In short, compulsive reading from start to finish. Not to be missed! -- A.A. Chaudhuri
You don't have to be a genius to follow the superbly intricate narrative of the new novel from Ajay Chowdhury, but he is brilliant to have written it -- Greg Mosse
Revenge is a dish served flaming hot in this twisted tale of betrayal, an inescapable curse, and seemingly impossible murders amongst Mumbai's elite. The Shadow is a gripping new instalment in Ajay Chowdhury's always intriguing Detective Kamil Rahman series -- Paul Waters
Ritual killings, a generational curse … This book is a riot. Chowdhury’s depiction of India is visceral and real, blending old and new. A narrative woven tightly, twisting and turning, it leaves you constantly looking behind and sideways, at what you may have missed. A highly enjoyable and hugely entertaining read. -- Nilesha Chauvet
Inventive in terms of locations and plots ... Poised brilliantly between revelations about Indian business practices and the power of ancient beliefs -- The Times
Inventive in terms of locations and plots… [The Shadow] is poised brilliantly between revelations about Indian business practices and the power of ancient beliefs * Sunday Times *
ISBN: 9781787304031
Dimensions: 242mm x 165mm x 34mm
Weight: 595g
384 pages