Vaseem Khan's acclaimed Baby Ganesh Agency crime series won the Shamus Award in the US, with The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020, now translated into 16 languages. The first novel in the Malabar House series, Midnight at Malabar House, won the CWA Historical Dagger 2021 and was shortlisted for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award.
Khan's newest novel is The Girl In Cell A.
At CrimeReads the author tagged five favorite small town America thrillers, including:
Harper Lee, To Kill a MockingbirdRead about the other entries on the list.
I first read this in school. Yes, Harper Lee’s classic has even made it to the curriculum in England! Emblematic of the intricacies and prejudicesof small town communities, this definitive work of American literature is just as relevant today. Although The Girl in Cell A isn’t about race, there is no escaping the fact that local feeling might have shaded Orianna’s conviction. Orianna is the descendant of Catholic Indians brought over from the subcontinent to Caribbean plantations, who then made the short journey over to the States. Her mother worked for the Wyclerc dynasty as a housekeeper. Orianna can never quite escape the fact that she is different; during her long years in prison that sense of being an outsider fuels her belief that the gaps in her memory hold the key to her innocence.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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