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Abir Mukherjee

Travel This Summer Without Leaving Your Beach Chair

By Crime HQ

July 12, 2022

Introduction by Sarah Stewart Taylor, author of The Drowning Sea, part of the Maggie D’Arcy Mystery Series set in Ireland When I’m traveling, my favorite moments—and memories—are those when I suddenly see a place in a way I couldn’t have if I’d stuck to the tourist quarter or only visited the highlights in the guidebook.…

Book Review: Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee

By Larry Clow

March 14, 2019

Smoke and Ashes is the third novel in Abir Mukherjee’s prize-winning Sam Wyndham series in which Wyndham continues to battle his opium addition, sparked by a WWI injury, as he investigates two murders, both involving similarly mutilated bodies. Unfortunately, Wyndham has a dilemma: one of the bodies is discovered in an opium den he visited…

Review: A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee

By Angie Barry

A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee is the second book in the Sam Wyndham series set in India, 1920, where Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee of the Calcutta Police Force investigate the dramatic assassination of a Maharajah’s son. I threw open my door, but before I could move, the man in saffron had stood up. He had…

Announcing 2018’s Barry Award Nominees

By Crime HQ

January 23, 2018

The Barry Awards, which began in 1997, are presented at the annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. Voted on by the readers of Deadly Pleasures, the award is named in honor of Barry Gardner, a well-known fan reviewer and American critic. This year's awards will be held on September 6, 2018, at the St. Petersburg Bouchercon…

Announcing 2018’s Edgar Award Nominees

By Crime HQ

January 19, 2018

The Mystery Writers of America have announced the 2018 Edgar Award nominees and special winners. The Edgars banquet—an annual black-tie gala celebrating crime fiction, non-fiction, and television writing—will be held on Thursday, April 26th, 2018, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. As always, it's a fantastic list of great work that deserves…

Book Review: A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

By Jenny Maloney

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee is the 1st novel in the enticing new historical Sam Wyndham crime series set in colonial-era Calcutta, India, where a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official. 1919. Scotland Yard detective Sam Wyndham survived the trenches of the Great War but lost…

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