Abir Mukherjee
3 SeriesAbir Mukherjee is the author of the bestselling Wyndham & Banerjee series. He won the CWA Endeavour Dagger for his debut novel, "A Rising Man," in 2017. His second novel, "A Necessary Evil," received the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing.
In "Smoke and Ashes" by Abir Mukherjee, set in 1921 India, Captain Wyndham investigates a grisly murder in Calcutta that eerily resembles a body he encountered during an opium-induced haze. To retain his job, Wyndham must conceal his past drug use, yet this knowledge is crucial to solving the case. As he races against time, another murder looms on the horizon, intensifying the urgency of his investigation.
