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THE EDGE OF DARKNESS
By: Vaseem Khan
a gripping and unforgettable Persis Wadia thriller from the award-winning author of Midnight at Malabar House
Hodder & Stoughton
May 2026
On Sale: May 5, 2026
Featuring: Persis Wadia
336 pages
ISBN: 1399747851
EAN: 9781399747851
Hardcover
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Mystery Historical | Thriller Crime
India, 1951. After wilfully ignoring orders, Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective, is exiled from Bombay to the wild and mountainous Naga Hills District. As India's first post-Independence election looms, and tensions rise across the country, Persis finds herself banished to the Hotel Victoria, a crumbling colonial-era relic, her career in tatters.
But when a prominent politician is murdered in his locked room at the Victoria, his head missing, she is thrust back into the fray. Is the murderer one of the foreigners staying at the hotel or an insurgent from the surrounding jungle? As the political situation threatens to explode, Persis has only days to stop a killer operating at the very edge of darkness...
The sixth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series and a perfect entry point for new readers.
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