This is a crime novel for everyone; for those who love traditional mysteries there are clues, codes and ciphers, but it also had a harder edge and a post-war darkness. A brilliant second outing for Persis Wadia—Ann Cleeves
The Da Vinci Code meets post-Independence India. I'd be surprised if I read a better book this year —M.W. Craven
Persis is brave, admirable, complicated and maddening, and is one of the few superlative and original characters emerging from modern literature—On-Magazine
As this charming series continues, readers will be cheering [Persis's] successes—SHOTS
A thoroughly enjoyable yarn, complete with atmospheric setting, intricate puzzle-solving and much derring-do—Mail on Sunday
The second in this excellent series . . . a delicious treat of a historical crime novel—The Observer
Early indications are that Vaseem Khan has struck gold by setting detective novels in 1950s Bombay. And that is why this is a gem of a novel
—The Eastern EyeA wonderful, pacy, literary mystery—Steve Cavanagh
A hugely entertaining, devilishly clever and immersive murder mystery—Antonia Hodgson
Vaseem Khan is at the height of his powers in The Dying Day . . . First-rate story telling from a first-rate writer—Daily Express Books of the Year, chosen by Imran Mahmood
Reminiscent of some of the classics of crime fiction—Crime Review
This is a crime novel for everyone; for those who love traditional mysteries there are clues, codes and ciphers, but it also had a harder edge and a post-war darkness. A brilliant second outing for Persis Wadia—Ann Cleeves
The Da Vinci Code meets post-Independence India. I'd be surprised if I read a better book this year —M.W. Craven
Persis is brave, admirable, complicated and maddening, and is one of the few superlative and original characters emerging from modern literature—On-Magazine
As this charming series continues, readers will be cheering [Persis's] successes—SHOTS
A thoroughly enjoyable yarn, complete with atmospheric setting, intricate puzzle-solving and much derring-do—Mail on Sunday
The second in this excellent series . . . a delicious treat of a historical crime novel—The Observer
Early indications are that Vaseem Khan has struck gold by setting detective novels in 1950s Bombay. And that is why this is a gem of a novel
—The Eastern EyeA wonderful, pacy, literary mystery—Steve Cavanagh
A hugely entertaining, devilishly clever and immersive murder mystery—Antonia Hodgson