About the Book: Edge of Darkness
India, 1951. After wilfully ignoring orders from her superiors, Persis Wadia,
Indias first female police detective, has been exiled from Bombay to the wild
and mountainous state of Nagaland. As Indias first post-Independence election
looms, and tensions rise across the country, Persis finds herself banished to
the Victoria Hotel, a crumbling colonial-era relic, her career in ruins.
But when a prominent local politician is murdered in his locked room at the
Victoria Hotel, his head missing-a case appears quite literally on her doorstep.
As the political situation threatens to explode into all-out havoc, Persis has
only days to