{"product_id":"the-shadow-ajay-chowdhury","title":"The Shadow (Ajay Chowdhury)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA RITUAL KILLING. AN ANCIENT CURSE. WHAT'S MYTH... AND WHAT'S MURDER?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A slick, masterfully plotted, white-knuckle ride of a read,' A.A. CHAUDHURI\u003cbr\u003e'A highly enjoyable and hugely entertaining read' NILESHA CHAUVET\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a bruising encounter with a terrorist group, Detective Kamil Rahman has resigned from the Met and set up a detective agency with his friend Anjoli. But when his boss asks him to go to India to investigate the murder of a British engineer who was found with eighteen arrows stuck in his body, Kamil agrees to take the case, as long as Anjoli can accompany him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen they arrive in Mumbai, they find someone is on a gruesome killing spree, striking down those connected to the engineer in increasingly macabre ways. Meanwhile, an old friend of Kamil's begs for his help breaking the curse he believes his family is under.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the body count rises, Kamil is torn between solving a very real murder case and protecting his friend from a grisly - if far-fetched - fate. Can he catch a killer and prevent an ancient curse before more people lose their lives?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Detective Kamil Rahman novels:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Outstanding' \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hugely entertaining' ANN CLEEVES\u003cbr\u003e'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish' ABIR MUKHERJEE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eREADERS LOVE KAMIL AND ANJOLI\u003ci\u003e:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Keeps getting better and better'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In Kamil and Anjoli, Ajay Chowdhury has created a \u003cb\u003emodern day Holmes and Watson'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eFull of intrigue and twists and turns\u003c\/b\u003e'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAjay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children's book - \u003ci\u003eAyesha and the Firefish\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco. \u003ci\u003eEden Falls\u003c\/i\u003e, his first standalone thriller, was published in July 2026.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Waiter \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures. \u003ci\u003eThe Patriot \u003c\/i\u003eis the latest book in the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 400 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65815706599773,"sku":"K010366048","price":10.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1036604800001A.jpg?v=1788573500","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-shadow-ajay-chowdhury","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}