The Crime Warp

Chopra grew up in a village in rural India, moved to Mumbai aged 17 to train as a policeman, and has spent 30 years as a police officer in the subcontinent’s ‘city of dreams’. He has seen everything in Mumbai, both the light and dark.  He is ambivalent about the new wealth flooding the country, and the influence of globalisation which has transformed places like Mumbai; he is particularly bothered by how vast inequalities persist in the city. He has been married to Poppy for 24 years; they are childless, but this has only brought them closer together. When a baby elephant arrives on their doorstep, at first Chopra has no idea what to do with it... but gradually a bond develops. The Fields of Wheat moment… What is the most rebellious thing Inspector Chopra has ever done?  Available here In the first book The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra , Chopra is forced into early retirement (he’s only in his late forties). On his last day, th...

Once in a while you are lucky enough to come across a book so charming you immediately fall for it - a book with a cast of colourful characters so well drawn that you are immersed into the plot from the first page. How better to escape your every-day pressures, than a trip to Mumbai, India where you participate in the hunt for the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond, stolen in a brazen heist? ‘The most honest man in India’ is a hard label to live up to, but Inspector Ashwin Chopra (Retd) more than deserves it. Forced to take early retirement due to complex political machinations in the police force, Chopra sets up a private detective agency. When the Queen permits an exhibition of a selection of the British Crown Jewels with the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond as its centrepiece all of Mumbai is buzzing. Some Nationalists use this exhibition to advocate the return of the famous diamond to India, its country of origin. So who is to blame when the famous diamond is stolen? In a change from his us...