About the book: 2024 / Bombay, New Year's Eve 1949, as India celebrates the advent of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia is on duty in the basement of Malabar House, where the city's most undesirable police unit is located. Six months after joining the police force, she remains India's first female detective, is mistrusted, is suspended and is now working the night shift. And that's when the phone rings to report a murder. An English diplomat is found dead and without pants in his office.…