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Vaseem Khan



Vaseem Khan first saw an elephant lumbering down the middle of the road in 1997 when he arrived in India to work as a consultant. It was the most unusual thing he'd ever encountered and served as the inspiration...
 

Awards: CWA (2021), Shamus (2017)  see all

Genres: Cozy Mystery, Historical Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
November 2024

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City of Destruction
(Malabar House, book 5)
January 2026

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The Edge of Darkness
(Malabar House, book 6)
Novels
   The Girl in Cell A (2025)
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Anthologies edited
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Books containing stories by Vaseem Khan
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Murder in Harrogate (2024)
Stories inspired by the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
edited by
Vaseem Khan
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Happiness is a Warm Gun (2023)
Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles
(Inspired by anthologies)
edited by
Josh Pachter
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Never Too Old to Save the World (2023)
A Midlife Calling Anthology
edited by
Alana Joli Abbott and Addie J King

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Awards
2021 CWA Historical Dagger : Midnight at Malabar House
2017 Shamus Award for Best Original PI Paperback : The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown

Award nominations
2024 CWA Gold Dagger (longlist) : Death of a Lesser God
2024 CWA Dagger in the Library (longlist)
2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : The Lost Man of Bombay
2023 Short Story Dagger (longlist) : Death in Darjeeling
2023 CWA Gold Dagger (shortlist) : The Lost Man of Bombay
2022 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : Midnight at Malabar House
2018 Shamus Award for Best Original PI Paperback (nominee) : The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star
2018 CrimeFest: Last Laugh Award (nominee) : The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star
2017 CrimeFest: Last Laugh Award (nominee) : The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown


Vaseem Khan recommends
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Dirty Money (2025)
(Farrow & Chang, book 1)
Charlotte Philby
"Dirty Money introduces an edgy new partnership to grace the crime fiction landscape. In Farrow and Chang we find a wildly contrasting duo forced together to navigate a path from London's darkly gleaming towers to the city's seedy underbelly. A stylish start to a compelling new series."
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The Bells of Westminster (2024)
Leonora Nattrass
"The Bells of Westminster delivers everything you would want from a historical crime novel. A wonderfully rendered period setting, a cast of sympathetic characters, and a compelling puzzle, one with great historical resonance. All told using the most delicious prose. A delightfully immersive historical mystery."
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Our Holiday (2024)
Louise Candlish
"Candlish excels in making even unlikeable characters compelling. A thrilling study of toxic one-upmanship amongst the suburban elite."

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