Brick Lane. Dans ce quartier de Londres, jeans et parkas se mélangent aux saris, et les restaurants indiens proposent des currys aussi parfumés qu'au New Market de Calcutta. Kamil y est serveur depuis peu, mais son âme est celle d'un détective, et son modèle inavoué est Hercule Poirot. Forcé à l'exil après avoir perdu son poste de policier en Inde, il sert en toute illégalité des bhajis d'oignons aux hipsters de l'East End et du whisky Black Label dans les fêtes bling-bling sur les hauteurs de Hampstead Heath. Là, actrices de Bollywood et businessmen indiens se frôlent parfois d'un peu trop près au bord des piscines. Un accident est si vite arrivé... Mais de Londres à Calcutta, la mort a partout le même visage. Alors le serveur de Brick Lane troque son plateau contre sa casquette de détective, déterminé à affronter les fantômes du passé.Une comédie policière enlevée, piquante, souvent très drôle. France Inter.Traduit de l'anglais par Lise Garond.
Ex-detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the day he caters an extravagant party for his boss's rich and powerful friend, the peace of his simple new life is shattered.
Kamil Rahman used to be a detective in Kolkata. Now he's a cook in London's East End.Kamil Rahman thought his crimefighting days were behind him. But when a woman he knows is murdered and the police arrest the most convenient suspect, he hangs up his apro
From the award-winning author of THE WAITER comes the third instalment in the Detective Rahman series When a tech entrepreneur from Shoreditch is found dead in a construction site, along with three skeletons which are discovered to be over a hundred years old, Detective Kamil Rahman sets out to prove himself on his first case for the Met Police.
Praise for the Detective Rahman series:
''A rip-roaring mystery that''s engrossing from start to finish'' - ABIR MUKHERJEE ''This detective waiter has all the ingredients for a great crime series'' - SUN ''[Kamil is a] likeable inspector . . . We shall hear much more of him'' - DAILY MAIL ''An elegantly constructed thriller'' - THE TIMES ''Hugely entertaining'' - ANN CLEEVES ''An outstanding debut'' - SUNDAY TIMES
After a bruising encounter with a terrorist group, Detective Kamil Rahman has decided to hand in his resignation to the Met and join his friend Anjoli in her detective agency. But when his boss asks him to go to India to investigate the murder of a British construction engineer who was found with eighteen arrows in his body, Kamil agrees to take the case, as long as Anjoli can accompany him.
When they arrive in Mumbai, they find someone is on a gruesome killing spree, striking down those connected to the engineer in macabre and unholy ways. Meanwhile, an old friend of Kamil''s gets in touch to beg for his help: he believes his family are cursed, and that he is going to die on his 47th birthday, just like his father and grandfather before him.
As the body count rises, Kamil is torn between solving a very real murder case and protecting his friend from a grizzly - if far-fetched - fate. Can he catch a killer and prevent an ancient curse before more people lose their lives?
