Vaseem Khan

Vaseem Khan is the author of the upcoming Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the James Bond franchise. He is also the author of two award-winning crime series set in India, the Baby Ganesh Agency series set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels set in 1950s Bombay. His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020, and is translated into 17 languages. The second in the series won the Shamus Award in the US. In 2021, Midnight at Malabar House won the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger, the world’s premier award for historical crime fiction. When he isn’t writing, he works at the Department of Security and Crime Science at University College London where he helps manage the Dawes Centre for Future Crime. Vaseem was born in England, but spent a decade working in India. Vaseem co-hosts the popular crime fiction podcast, MURDER JUNCTION. In 2023, Vaseem was elected the first non-white Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association (the CWA).

CWA Awards

CWA Historical Dagger - Winner
CWA Historical Dagger - Shortlisted

Other Awards

Vaseem was awarded the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture and Theatre Award for Literature in 2018.
The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown won the 2017 Shamus Award in the US for Best Original Private Investigator Paperback.
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra was named by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra was selected as a Waterstones paperback of the year
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra was named as a Bookmuse recommended read (Top 1% reviewer on Goodreads)
The audiobook of The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra narrated by Sartaj Garewal, was declared an Earphones Award Winner in the US.
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra selected as a Grasnet Best Christmas Read