Abir Mukherjee

Abir Mukherjee is the British writer of the Wyndham and Bannerjee crime novels. Mukherjee graduated from the London School of Economics and has, by his own admission, pursued ‘a spectacularly dull career in finance’ for the past twenty years. To alleviate the tedium of his day-job, Mukherjee began writing a historical crime novel set in Raj-era India. The result, A Rising Man, was published to widespread acclaim in 2016 and introduced the reading public to the crime fighting duo of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant ‘Surrender-Not’ Bannerjee. The book’s success spawned a sequel, A Necessary Evil, three years later followed by Smoke and Ashes (2018), Death in the East (2019) and The Shadows of Men (2022). The sixth in the series, The Burning Grounds was published in 2025.