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Smoke and ashes

Mukherjee, Abir2019
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Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he's seen this before. Last night, in a drug addled haze, he stumbled across a corpse with the same ritualistic injuries. It seems like there's a deranged killer on the loose. Unfortunately for Sam, the corpse was in an opium den and revealing his presence there could cost him his career. With the aid of his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, Sam must try to solve the two murders, all the while keeping his personal demons secret, before somebody else turns up dead.
Main title:
Smoke and ashes / Abir Mukherjee.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2019.
Collation:
332 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2018.
ISBN:
9781784704780 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.9'2
Language:
English
BRN:
63903
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