Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children's book - Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco.
The Waiter (
Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures.
The Cook (
Guardian Top Crime Books of the Year) was published in May 2022 to excellent reviews and deals with the issue of homelessness. The third book in the series -
The Detective (
Sunday Times Top Crime Books of the Year) - is about government surveillance and AI.
The Spy (Longlisted Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing)
, the fourth book, sees Kamil infiltrate a terrorist cell.
The Shadow (A
Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month) is the latest book in the series.