The Edge of Darkness: a gripping and unforgettable crime thriller from the award-winning author of the...

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Vaseem Khan

The Edge of Darkness

a gripping and unforgettable crime thriller from the award-winning author of the Malabar House...

Vaseem Khan

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Hodder & Stoughton
22 January 2026

Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense; Historical fiction

Series: The Malabar House Series

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.

By: Vaseem Khan
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399747851
ISBN 10: 1399747851
Series: The Malabar House Series
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 22 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Vaseem Khan is the author of several award-winning crime series including the Baby Ganesh Agency adventures, 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 in 2015-2020, and has been translated into 17 languages. Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House series, won the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger. Vaseem has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, the Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Novel of the Year for City of Destruction, the fifth in the Malabar House series. Vaseem is also the author of The Girl in Cell A, a psychological thriller set in small town America, and Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond.

Reviews for The Edge of Darkness: a gripping and unforgettable crime thriller from the award-winning author of the Malabar House series

Historical fiction at its finest * Mail on Sunday * Brilliant! -- Ann Cleeves Vaseem Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely. I couldn't love this series more -- Chris Whitaker