Bad Day at the Vulture Club: Baby Ganesh Agency Book 5

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In the gripping new BABY GANESH AGENCY novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens, a murder with ramifications for its poorest.

The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared.

When prominent industrialist Cyrus Zorabian is murdered on holy ground, his body dumped inside a Tower of Silence - where the Parsee dead are consumed by vultures - the police dismiss it as a random killing. But his daughter is unconvinced.

Chopra, uneasy at entering this world of power and privilege, is soon plagued by doubts about the case.

But murder is murder. And in Mumbai, wealth and corruption go in hand in hand, inextricably linking the lives of both high and low...

Reviews

5 stars. Best of the series so far.

Another brilliant chapter in this highly engaging series - Crime Squad

PRAISE FOR THE SERIES

A most beguiling series - Financial Times

Utterly charming - Guardian

Colour and atmosphere flows out of every page - Daily Express

Keeps things heart-warming while tackling corruption at the highest levels and violent crime at the lowest. Endearing and gripping. - The Sunday Times

The series continues to provide plenty of action and notwithstanding the humour that pervades every page the reader gets an education about the very real issues facing those living in one of India's largest cities. - Crime Review

Author Bio

Vaseem Khan is the author of two crime series set in India: the Baby Ganesh Agency series, and the Malabar House historical crime novels.

His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was a Times bestseller and has been translated into 16 languages. Midnight at Malabar House won the CWA Historical Fiction Dagger in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.

Vaseem was born in London, but spent a decade working in India as a management consultant.