A serial killer is terrorizing Dilli and Mughal nobleman and detective Muzaffar
Jang might have finally met his match.
In the spring of 1657, the Mughal armies have reached the Deccan, besieging the
Fort of Bidar. Back home in Dilli, there is unrest: the empire seethes and
stirs, and its capital reflects this turbulence. Muzaffar Jang, newly married to
his beloved Shireen and trying to adjust to life as a husband, stumbles into the
investigation of a merchants murder. Even as another crime - the kidnapping of a
wealthy moneylenders infant son - occurs, Muzaffar finds himself at odds with
his brother-in-law, Khan Sahib, the