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Abir Mukherjee, born in 1974 in London, is a British novelist of Indian origin who writes historical crime fiction. Abir grew up in Scotland and currently lives in Surrey. He graduated from the London School of Economics and worked for twenty years in the world of finance.
In 2013, he began to write and published his first novel, A Rising Man, in 2016. This marked the first volume in a series of thrillers set in 1919 Calcutta featuring Captain Sam Wyndham, a former Scotland Yard inspector now part of the Imperial Police and Sergeant Surrender-Not (Surendranath) Banerjee.
These detective stories allow Abir Mukherjee to revisit the history of the Raj. Through them, he tries to put in perspective the outlook received during his British education and the Indian vision of colonisation transmitted by his Calcutta-born parents, a city that fascinates him and in which he regularly immerses himself.