Bad Day at the Vulture Club

In the gripping new Baby Ganesh Agency cosy crime novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens.

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. And 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...

'Endearing and gripping' Sunday Times
'Utterly charming' The Guardian
'Colour and atmosphere flows from every page' Daily Express

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