Vaseem Khan's acclaimed Baby Ganesh Agency crime series won the Shamus Award in the US, with The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020, now translated into 16 languages. The first novel in the Malabar House series, Midnight at Malabar House, won the CWA Historical Dagger 2021 and was shortlisted for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award.
Khan's newest novel is The Girl In Cell A.
At CrimeReads the author tagged five favorite small town America thrillers, including:
James Dickey, DeliveranceRead about another entry on the list.
Included on the 2005 Time magazine list of 100 best novels English-language novels, I first came to this book via the screenadaptation. Although not quite set in a small town, the novel has everything that small town America has come to embody in the popular imagination, from the banjo-strumming local to the raging river that plays a central role in the action to the contrast between soft city folk and the dangerous backwoodsmen of the forested hills within which so many small towns in fiction are nestled including Eden Falls. It is that sense of wooded isolation that I borrowed for the claustrophobic environment of my setting.
Deliverance is among Jeff Somers's five best novels written by poets, T.C. Boyle's six top books that explore man's inherent violence, and Pat Conroy's six favorite books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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