The Dying Day

A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.

Bombay, 1950

For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old
copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic
Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care,
British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis
Wadia's desk.

Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis - together
with English forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch - is soon on the trail. But
then they discover the first body.

As the death toll mounts it becomes evident that someone else is also pursuing
this priceless artefact and will stop at nothing to possess it . . .

Harking back to an era of darkness, this second thriller in the Malabar House
series pits Persis, once again, against her peers, a changing India, and an
evil of limitless intent.

Gripping, immersive, and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is
historical fiction at its finest.