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*As seen on The One Show* 
 
* A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH * 
 
'Hugely entertaining' - ANN CLEEVES 
'An outstanding debut' - SUNDAY TIMES 
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Ex-detective Kamil Rahman is embroiled in a case that might just change his life - for better or for worse . . . 
 
Disgraced detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the peace of his new life is soon shattered. The day Kamil caters an extravagant party, the powerful host, Rakesh, is found dead in his swimming pool. 
 
Suspicion falls on Rakesh's young and glamorous new wife, and Kamil is called to investigate for the family. Kamil and Anjoli, his boss's daughter, prove a winning team - yet as the case progresses, and their relationship grows, the events of Kamil's past threaten to catch up with him . . . 
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'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish' - ABIR MUKHERJEE 
 
'This detective waiter has all the ingredients for a great crime series' - SUN 
 
'[Kamil is a] likeable inspector . . . We shall hear much more of him' - DAILY MAIL 
 
'An elegantly constructed thriller' - THE TIMES

The Waiter

the award-winning first book in a thrilling new detective series

A ritual killing. An ancient curse. What's myth... and what's murder? 
 
After a bruising encounter with a terrorist group, Detective Kamil Rahman has decided to hand in his resignation to 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. 
 
When 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 gets in touch to beg for his help: he believes his family are cursed, and that he is going to die on his 47th birthday, just like his father and grandfather before him. 
 
As 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?

The Shadow

The Guardian's best crime and thriller book of 2022 
 
From the award-winning author of the Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month The Waiter comes the second page-turning mystery starring detective-turned-cook Kamil Rahman. 
 
'A refreshing and welcome addition to the world of detective fiction' Abir Mukherjee 
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Kamil Rahman used to be a detective in Kolkata. Now he's a cook in London's East End. 
Yet trouble still knows where to find him... 
 
Kamil Rahman thought his crimefighting days were behind him. But when a woman he knows is murdered and the police arrest the most convenient suspect, he hangs up his apron and employs his detective skills once more to find the true killer. 
 
Meanwhile, restaurant manager Anjoli is volunteering with a homeless charity, where she notices a sudden troubling increase in unexplained deaths among people sleeping rough in and around Brick Lane. With the council and police uninterested, she starts an investigation of her own. 
 
Kamil and Anjoli's cases seem unrelated, but as the duo dig deeper, they discover connections that stretch from London to Lahore. Together they take on the indifference of the authorities . . . If the Met won't find the murderers, then they will. 
 
 
Praise for The Waiter: 
 
'A hugely entertaining first novel' Ann Cleeves 
 
'An outstanding debut' Sunday Times Book of the Month 
 
'A rip-roaring mystery that's engrossing from start to finish... a refreshing and welcome addition to the world of detective fiction. One of my favourite reads of the year' Abir Mukherjee

The Cook

From the award-winning author of The Waiter

ONE BOY MISSING. ONE MAN UNDERCOVER. A WHOLE NATION AT RISK. 
 
Detective Kamil Rahman is working for the Met Police when he gets the call from MI5. They’ve received intelligence of a terrorist plot, and it’s Kamil they need. 
 
Posing as a disaffected cop, and working back in his friend Anjoli’s beloved restaurant on Brick Lane, Kamil attempts to infiltrate the cell. What he uncovers leads him halfway across the world to Kashmir, and face to face with an old nemesis. 
 
Meanwhile Anjoli starts to investigate the disappearance of a young boy who’s sending coded messages to his parents. As she attempts to solve his clues, she finds herself in greater danger than she could have imagined. 
 
Time is running out for Kamil and Anjoli: can they save the boy, and save a nation, before it’s too late? 
 
 
For fans of Robert Galbraith, Anthony Horowitz and Elly Griffiths, The Spy is the compelling, thought-provoking new mystery in the Detective Kamil Rahman series.

The Spy

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