{"product_id":"9781399707695","title":"City of Destruction : The gripping and unputdownable new Malabar House mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Khan, Vaseem \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/09\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781399707695,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Vaseem Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely. I couldn't love this series more' CHRIS WHITAKER'Historical fiction at its finest' MAIL ON SUNDAYFrom the award-winning author of MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSE and THE LOST MAN OF BOMBAY comes a brilliant new mystery featuring the inimitable Persis Wadia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBombay, 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate the divisive new defence minister, a man calling for war with India's new post-Independence neighbours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down the assassin's co-conspirators - aided by agents from Britain's MI6 security service - Persis is quickly relegated to the sidelines. But then she is given a second case, the burned body of an unidentified white man found on a Bombay beach. As she pursues both investigations - with and without official sanction - she soon finds herself headed to the country's capital, New Delhi, a city where ancient and modern India openly clash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Persis's colleague, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life as all around him the country tears itself apart in the prelude to war...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55673427460469,"sku":"9781399707695","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781399707695_9edc80e5-191b-419e-9475-32cd996bc471.jpg?v=1759672120","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781399707695","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}