Midnight at Malabar House

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 and only 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. Accompanied by Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch and navigating a country and society in turmoil, smart, stubborn Persis must find a way to solve the murder – whatever the cost.