
A Rising Man - Sam Wyndham (Hardback)
Abir Mukherjee (author)Published: 05/05/2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781846559013
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 665 g
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 35 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"A journey into the dark underbelly of the British Raj... a cracking debut" -- Jon Coates * Daily Express *
"Splendid...Captain Sam Wyndham is a winning creation" * The Times, Crime Book of the Month *
"[A] terrific first novel...Mukherjee's descriptions of Calcutta under the Raj are vivid, while Wyndham's position as a newcomer with fresh eyes works brilliantly" * Sunday Times, Crime Book of the Month *
"Enthralling... The investigation sends Wyndham and his Bengali assistant on a whirlwind circuit of the city" -- Marilyn Stasio * New York Times Book Review *
"Evocative, intricate, beautifully written. A must read" -- Vaseem Khan, author of the Inspector Chopra mysteries
"A lip-smacking and highly entertaining mystery, set in a Calcutta so convincingly evoked that readers will find sweat bursting from their foreheads" -- Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph *
"This vivid murder mystery moves at breakneck speeds" * Sunday Times *
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