Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan is the author of two 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 a Sunday Times bestseller, now translated into 15 languages. The second in the series won the Shamus Award in the US. In 2018, he was awarded the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture and Theatre Award for Literature. Vaseem was born in England, but spent a decade working in India. Midnight at Malabar House, the first in his historical crime series, won the CWA Historical Dagger 2021. The third novel in the Malabar House series – The Lost Man of Bombay – has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. The fourth novel in the series, Death of a Lesser God, comes out Aug 2023. He is the Vice-president of the Crime Writers’ Association.