{"product_id":"9781399707657-city-of-destruction-the-warm-witty-and-utterly-addictive-cozy","title":"City of Destruction: the warm, witty and utterly addictive cozy","description":"\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 SUNDAY From 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. Bombay, 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.       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.        Meanwhile, 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":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48979987497179,"sku":"9781399707657","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3b7ee892-70f5-4761-8f7d-360dcba8c698.jpg?v=1784221772","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781399707657-city-of-destruction-the-warm-witty-and-utterly-addictive-cozy","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}