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Smoke and Ashes

Abir Mukherjee

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#4655 of 8,085 books · #705 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (2020).

Smoke and Ashes won the 2017 CWA Historical Dagger Award. India, 1921. Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. But Wyndham finds himself in a tight spot when he stumbles across a corpse in an opium den. When he then comes across a second body bearing the same injuries, Wyndham is convinced that there's a deranged killer on the loose. However, revealing his presence in the opium den could cost him his career. As Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-not' Banerjee set out to solve the two murders, Wyndham must tread carefully, keeping his personal demons secret, before someone else turns up dead...

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Publisher
National Geographic Books
ISBN-13
9781911215158
Topics
Murder investigationBritish Raj colonial IndiaAddiction

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