The Outsider

byAjay Chowdhury

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A lavish wedding. A politician’s murder.
In a conspiracy this big, there are secrets worth killing for . . .

When Detective Kamil Rahman and his ex-partner Anjoli Chatterjee attend an extravagant wedding in New York City, the brutal murder of a politician puts them on a trail of secrets and a deadly government conspiracy. Can they find the true killer and expose the truth before an innocent man’s life is destroyed, and they are hunted down? A fast-paced, twisty new novel in the acclaimed Detective Rahman series.

An absolute roller coaster of a read

Liz Nugent on The Patriot

About Ajay Chowdhury

Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children’s book – Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco. Eden Falls, his first standalone thriller, was published in July 2026.

The Waiter (Sunday Times 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. The Patriot is the latest book in the series.
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