Vaseem Khan. Hachette/Redhook, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-38682-1
A faulty heart has forced the early retirement of Mumbai’s Insp. Ashwin Chopra, the hero of Khan’s winning debut, but the discovery of a young man drowned in a puddle of water upsets the policeman’s last day on the job. Neither Chopra’s superior nor
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Vaseem Khan. Redhook, $15.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-38684-5
Khan’s winning second Baby Ganesh Agency mystery (after 2015’s The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra) smoothly combines an affable lead, a seemingly impossible crime, and an endearing and highly unusual sidekick—a baby elephant named...
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Vaseem Khan. Redhook, $15.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-43451-5
Khan’s offbeat third mystery featuring retired Indian police inspector turned Mumbai PI Ashwin Chopra (after 2016’s The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown) takes on Bollywood. At the start of the book, Chopra, his wife, and his sidekick—a...
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Vaseem Khan. Redhook, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-43453-9
In Khan’s outstanding fourth mystery featuring Mumbai PI Ashwin Chopra (after 2017’s The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star), a friend on the force, Rohan Tripathi, asks Chopra to look into the death of American billionaire Hollis Burbank,...
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Edited by Addie J. King and Alana Joli Abbott. Outland, $19.95 Trade Paper (318p) ISBN 978-1-954255-47-0
These 19 clever stories reimagine the Chosen One trope, giving the mantle to older, more experienced heroes. Among the strongest pieces are “The M.A.M.I. Incident” by Guadalupe García McCall, in which bioengineered M.A.M.I.s oversee childbearing in...
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