**THE BURNING GROUNDS is the award winning novel from the author of HUNTED the British Book
Awards Crime Thriller of the Year 2025 and Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
2025** 'An unmissable series' The Times 'Captivating moving and exciting it's historical
fiction at its finest' Sunday Express 'An utterly spellbinding triumph from a master
storyteller' Joseph O'Connor 'Thrilling evocative and amusing. It's a book that has
everything' Imran Mahmood In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta where the dead are laid to rest a
man is found murdered his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular patron
of the arts a man who was by all accounts beloved by all: so what was the motive for his
murder? Despite being out of favour with the Imperial Police Force Detective Sam Wyndham is
assigned to the case and finds himself thrust into the glamorous world of Indian cinema.
Meanwhile Surendranath Banerjee recently returned from Europe after three years spent running
from the fallout of his last case is searching for a missing photographer a trailblazing
woman at the forefront of the profession. When Suren discovers that the vanished woman is
linked to Sam's murder investigation the two men find themselves working together once again -
but will Wyndham and Banerjee be able to put their differences aside to solve the case? 'Abir
Mukherjee is doing something uniquely different in the crime genre...breathtaking' Peter May
Sunday Times bestseller on The Shadows of Men
