Sam Wyndham and Surendranath Banerjee, two extraordinary officers in the Calcutta police, share a great bonding as a team and as friends. They’re on a mission to solve two suspiciously similar murders, while keeping their personal lives and secrets aside.
Set against the historical backdrop of the Non-cooperation movement and the intense battle for independence, Smoke and Ashes is a pacy historical fiction packed with mystery and action.
Right from the beginning till the very end, these two enthralling characters, though not perfect, will have you rooting for them:
Meet Captain Sam Wyndham
Meet Surendranath Banerjee
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With the British Raj and the political tensions during the fervent fight for Independence at its heart, Smoke and Ashes is a thought provoking read that will transport you to a different place and time.
Abir Mukherjee has beautifully juxtaposed real people like Subhash Chandra Bose and Prince Edward, in this captivating fiction in a way that feels authentic to their real lives.
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A Must Read Crime-Thriller Trilogy
A Rising Man
India, 1919. In the bid to have a fresh start Captain Sam Wyndham takes up an important position in Calcutta’s police force. He is summoned to look into a terrible murder of an official, as a warning to the British to leave India.
With the stability of the Empire under threat, Wyndham and the quick-thinking Sergeant ‘Surrender-not’ Banerjee must solve the case quickly. But there are some who will do anything to stop them…
A Necessary Evil
India, 1920. Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee are visiting the kingdom of Sambalpore to investigate the dramatic assassination of a Maharaja’s son…
As Wyndham and Sergeant ‘Surrender-not’ Banerjee endeavour to unravel the mystery, they become entangled in a dangerous world—riven with internal conflicts regarding the throne. They must find the murderer, before the murderer finds them.
Smoke and Ashes
Set against the backdrop of the fervent fight for Indian independence, and rich with the atmosphere of 1920s Calcutta, Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee is the brilliant new historical mystery in this award-winning series.
Battling a serious addiction to opium, which he must keep a secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force, and haunted by the memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham has been called to investigate a gruesome murder. With the aid of his sharp Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, Sam must try to solve the two murders, all the while keeping his personal demons secret, before somebody else turns up dead.
Set against the backdrop of the fervent fight for Indian independence, and rich with the atmosphere of 1920s Calcutta, Smoke and Ashes is the brilliant new historical mystery in this award-winning series.
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5 Quotes that will Make You Pick ‘A Rising Man’ As Your Next Read
Abir Mukherjee, an accountant turned writer, is the author of the bestselling book A Rising Man. His debut novel was inspired by a desire to recover a crucial period in Anglo-Indian history that seems to have been almost forgotten. It won the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition and became the first in a series starring Captain Sam Wyndham and ‘Surrender-not’ Banerjee.
The story follows Sam Wyndham, an English detective who comes to Calcutta after the Great War in search of a new start. He’s immediately thrown into his first case, the murder of a British burra sahib who’s been found with his throat cut in an alley. Sam, aided by his Indian assistant Sergeant Banerjee, investigate and soon find that things are a bit more complicated than they thought
Here are 5 quotes that will make you pick A Rising Man as your next book.
Murder as entertainment? Hmm…
Intriguing!
Ambivalence as a source of shock!
Captain Wyndham was no fan of the war!
British and their alternate channels
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Abir Mukherjee
Abir Mukherjee is the author of the bestselling crime fiction novel A Rising Man. He is the child of Indian immigrants from Calcutta and grew up in West Scotland. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he currently works in finance in London.
He is back with another enthralling crime fiction called A Necessary Evil.
Here are five things you probably didn’t know about him.
That’s how it started!
Wow!
He didn’t even expect it!
He was born in London.
This time Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee are in Sambalpore, investigating the assassination of the Maharajah’s son.
Indulge in suspense and thrills with the Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee’s latest adventures in A Necessary Evil.
