The Crime Writers’ Association

Historical Dagger 2019

Shortlisted


Abir Mukherjee

Smoke and Ashes

Published by: Harvill Secker

While battling a serious addiction to opium, Captain Sam Wyndham must hunt for a deranged killer in Calcutta in 1921 with Prince Edward about to visit the city to try to quell rising support for Indian independence from British rule.

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