The Scottish Mail on Sunday

The Dying Day Vaseem Khan

- John Williams

Hodder & Stoughton £16.99

Khan’s splendid heroine, Persis Wadia, Bombay’s first female detective, returns for a second adventure. It’s 1948 and an English academic has disappeare­d from the city’s Asiatic Society, bearing with him a fabulously rare original copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy. What follows is a thoroughly enjoyable yarn, complete with atmospheri­c setting, intricate puzzle-solving and much derring-do, as Persis cracks codes, battles ex-Nazis and struggles with her increasing­ly tangled love life.

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