Midnight at Malabar House - Signed, Lined & DatedBombay, New Year's Eve, 1949 As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after joining the force she remains India's first female police detective, mistrusted, sidelined and now consigned to the midnight shift. And so, when the phone rings to report the murder of prominent English diplomat Sir James

Men can do that for themselves

within their families - and between each other - than they ever thought possible

Reading his prose is like running a slow hand down cold silk

and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author

The obvious suspect is the Count's son

Matt reluctantly agrees to take a look but won't promise a result

a university lecturer

The Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne

fire up our blood

all men with good reason to hate Rome

both physical and moral

' Clare Mackintosh