THE EDGE OF DARKNESS

India 1951 After wilfully ignoring orders from her superiors Persis Wadia India s first female police detective has been exiled from Bombay to the wild and mountainous state of Nagaland As India s first post Independence election looms and tensions rise across the country Persis finds herself banished to the Victoria Hotel a crumbling colonial era relic her career in ruins But when a prominent local politician is murdered in his locked room at the Victoria Hotel his head missing a case appears quite literally on her doorstep As the political situation threatens to explode into all out havoc Persis has only days to stop a killer operating at the very edge of darkness The sixth rip roaring thriller in the award winning Malabar House novels and a perfect entry point to the series