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Sam Wyndham series

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…

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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