City of Destruction

In "Vaseem Khan's" gripping new mystery set in 1951 Bombay, India's first female police detective, Persis Wadia, finds herself at the center of turmoil after she fatally shoots a gunman targeting a controversial defense minister. Tasked with uncovering the assassin's conspirators alongside MI6 agents, Persis navigates challenges that push her to the fringes of authority. Simultaneously, she investigates the mysterious death of an unidentified man on the beach, leading her to the politically charged environment of New Delhi. As she delves deeper into both cases, her colleague Archie Blackfinch struggles for survival in a hospital amid the nation's unrest.