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Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India, the Baby Ganesh Agency series set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels set in 1950s Bombay. His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020, and is translated into 17 languages. The second in the series one a Shamus Award in the US. In 2021, Midnight at Malabar House won the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger and was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Vaseem was born in England, but spent a decade working in India. In 2006, he returned to the UK and joined University College London's Department of Security and Crime Science, where he has helped manage the Dawes Centre for Future Crime. In 2023, Vaseem was elected the first non-white Chair of the seventy-year-old UK Crime Writers' Association.
Excellent. An entertaining mash-up of Fleming, Le Carré and the best of British detective fiction * Charlie Higson * Clever, cunning and quirky ... Quintessential Khan * Mick Herron * A wonderful novel, escapist and playful, but with moments of deep tenderness and serious comment * Ann Cleeves * Vaseem Khan creates a living, breathing modern Q with a fascinating history, a quirky and sardonic view of the world, and the analytical aptitude to solve crimes with his own brand of brainpower. * Raymond Benson, author of 007 Continuation Novels and the Felix Leiter Adventure, The Hook and the Eye * Not only is Quantum of Menace a superbly paced and plotted thriller, the flawed and vulnerable Q is a character with astonishing depth ... Written with real warmth and humour, Quantum of Menace is absolutely recommended * M. W. Craven *
