Smoke and Ashes is Abir Mukherjees best book yet; a brilliantly conceived murder mystery set amidst political and social turmoil \u0083?? beautifully crafted\u0083?? C.J. Sansom<\/p>\n

India, 1921. Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force.<\/p>\n

But Wyndham finds himself in a tight spot when he stumbles across a corpse in an opium den. When he then comes across a second body bearing the same injuries, Wyndham is convinced that theres a deranged killer on the loose.<\/p>\n

However, revealing his presence in the opium den could cost him his career.<\/p>\n

As Wyndham and Sergeant Surrender-not Banerjee set out to solve the two murders, Wyndham must tread carefully, keeping his personal demons secret, before someone else turns up dead…<\/p>\n

It is the flamboyant evocation of Calcutta that makes this such a mesmerising read
\nGuardian
\nPraise for the Sam Wyndham series:<\/p>\n

\u0083??A thought-provoking rollercoaster\u0083?? Ian Rankin<\/p>\n

\u0083??Confirms Abir Mukherjee as a rising star of historical crime fiction\u0083??
\nThe Times<\/p>\n

\u0083??Cracking\u0083?? A journey into the dark underbelly of the British Raj\u0083?? Daily Express<\/p>\n

If you enjoyed Smoke and Ashes, look out for the fourth Sam Wyndham mystery, Death in the East in November 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27967,"parent":0,"template":"","book_type":[4],"book_author":[3384],"class_list":["post-60814","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book_type-crime-law","book_author-abir-mukherjee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/60814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_type?post=60814"},{"taxonomy":"book_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_author?post=60814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}