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Vaseem Khan | Author
Vaseem is the author of Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond. His follow-up, The Man with the Golden Compass, is set for release in 2026.
Vaseem is also the author of two acclaimed crime series set in India. The first of his Baby Ganesh Agency books, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published in 2015-2020. Translated into 17 languages, it introduces Inspector Chopra of the Mumbai police and his sidekick, a one-year-old baby elephant.
The first in his 1950s-set Malabar House series, Midnight at Malabar House, won the CWA Historical Dagger Award. More recently, City of Destruction, the fifth in the series, won the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Fiction Novel of the Year. In 2025, Vaseem’s first psychological thriller, set in small town America, The Girl in Cell A, was published.
Born in London, Vaseem spent a decade in India as a management consultant. When not writing, he works at University College London’s Department of Security and Crime Science including the Dawes Centre for Future Crime. In 2023, Vaseem was elected the first non-white Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association (the CWA), the oldest and largest association of crime writers in the UK.
