<p><b><h3>*<i>Sunday Times</i> Crime Book of the Month*</h3><br><h3>**A ''Book of the Year'' pick in <i>The Times</i>**</h3></b><br><br><b>''An engaging, evocative thriller that captures the heat of Indian nights and heady days of a bygone era, without being sentimental or simplistic'' Janice Hallett, bestselling author of <i>The Appeal<br><br></i></b><b>''Abir Mukherjee is doing something uniquely different in the crime genre...breathtaking'' PETER MAY, <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller</b><br><br>Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath?<br><br>Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this ''unmissable'' (The Times) series presents Wy