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Three masters of historical crime fiction. One live podcast recording. Zero survivors.
Abir Mukherjee and Vaseem Khan, hosts of the wildly popular Red Hot Chilli Writers podcast, bring their wit, warmth and encyclopaedic knowledge of murder to Bradford Literature Festival, with highly acclaimed crime writer Andrew Taylor as a special guest.
Between them, they’ll be discussing three brand-new releases, taking readers from 1920s Calcutta steeped in colonial tension to 1950s India on the brink of change, and a crumbling English girls’ school haunted, literally, by its secrets.
Expect the sharp banter and stellar conversation that have made Red Hot Chilli Writers essential listening, plus three brilliant new books and the authors who wrote them.
About the Authors
Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan is the award-winning author of two crime series set in India, the Q Mysteries, featuring Q from the James Bond franchise, and the psychological thriller The Girl in Cell A . His novels include The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra and CWA Historical Dagger-winning Midnight at Malabar House . Born in England, he spent a decade working in India and became the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s first non-white Chair in 2023.
Abir Mukherjee
Abir Mukherjee grew up in the West of Scotland. At the age of fifteen, his best friend made him read Gorky Park and he’s been a fan of crime fiction ever since. The child of immigrants from India, A Rising Man, his debut novel, was inspired by a desire to learn more about this crucial period in Anglo-Indian history that seems to have been almost forgotten. It won the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition and is the first in a new series starring Captain Sam Wyndham and ‘Surrender-Not’ Banerjee. Abir lives in London with his wife and two sons.
Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor is a crime and historical novelist, the author of nearly fifty books, three of which have been televised. His awards include the Diamond Dagger, the lifetime achievement award of the Crime Writers Association; the Gold Crown of the Historical Writers Association; and the CWA’s Historical Dagger (3 times). His most recent novels are the Ashes of London series set in Restoration London, and A Schooling in Murder, a whodunit set in a girls’ boarding school in 1945.
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