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From the award-winning author of THE WAITER comes the third instalment in the Detective Rahman series When a tech entrepreneur from Shoreditch is found dead in a construction site, along with three skeletons which are discovered to be over a hundred years old, Detective Kamil Rahman sets out to prove himself on his first case for the Met Police. Praise for the Detective Rahman series: ''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 ''Hugely entertaining'' - ANN CLEEVES ''An outstanding debut'' - SUNDAY TIMES
About the author
Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children’s book – Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco.
The Waiter (Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures.The Cook (Guardian Top Crime Books of the Year) was published in May 2022 to excellent reviews and deals with the issue of homelessness. The third book in the series – The Detective (Sunday Times Top Crime Books of the Year) – is about government surveillance and AI. The Spy (Longlisted Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing), the fourth book, sees Kamil infiltrate a terrorist cell. The Shadow (A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month) is the latest book in the series.
