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The Dying Day
- The Malabar House Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Maya Saroya
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The second brilliant novel in the highly acclaimed Malabar House series featuring Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective.
A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.
Bombay, 1950
For more than a century, one of the world's great treasures, a 600-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia's desk.
Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis - together with English forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch - is soon on the trail. But then they discover the first body.
As the death toll mounts, it becomes evident that someone else is also pursuing this priceless artefact and will stop at nothing to possess it....
Harking back to an era of darkness, this second thriller in the Malabar House series pits Persis, once again, against her peers, a changing India and an evil of limitless intent.
Gripping, immersive and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is historical fiction at its finest.
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- Philip
- 08-07-2023
Brilliantly Written and Performed
Khan is really hitting his straps with this remarkable, wide ranging, intriguing and thoroughly engaging mystery. His central character, Persis Wadia, is a brilliant and strong-willed woman making her way in a world where all attitudes are set against her succeeding as the new India’s first woman police inspector. The Dying Day is beautifully crafted and the arc of the story impeccable. Khan builds a panoply of delightfully portrayed and believable characters. His portrayal of Persis, a 28 year old Bombay Parsi woman, and the demands of her world, including those of a well-meaning but meddling aunt is so believable that it is beggars belief that it is developed by a 50 year old British man of Subcontinental, Muslim heritage. And… the story: amazing. The premise is intriguing and the execution truly Holmesian. Not only this, but Khan brings a 21st century lens to the relationship of Britain and empire to the, then newly, partitioned Subcontinent; a relationship the heritage of which echoes even now. Read it for the characters and the story, and you’ll learn much along the way.
Maya Saroya’s narration and voicing is a tour de force in the art; carrying on her brilliant work from Midnight at Malabar House. Saroya’s casting for the narration of Khan’s Malabar House series is a true master stroke.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-06-2023
Nice read
Took a few unexpected turns but stayed true to the plot. Persis is an icon.
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