Historical FictionCrimeMystery

Sam Wyndham

Abir Mukherjee

6 books

Captain Sam Wyndham, a traumatised WWI veteran and opium addict, investigates murder in 1920s British India alongside his sharp, sardonic Bengali sergeant Surrender-not Banerjee. Mukherjee writes with blistering wit and moral clarity, using the whodunit form to dissect colonialism from the inside. Richly atmospheric, politically intelligent, and compulsively readable.

Reading Order

  1. 1.

    A Rising Man

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  2. 2.

    A Necessary Evil

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  3. 3.

    Smoke and Ashes

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  4. 4.

    Death in the East

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  5. 5.

    The Shadows of Men

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  6. 6.

    The Devil's Garden

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