Vaseem Khan is the author of two crime series set in India, the Baby Ganesh Agency series, and the Malabar House historical crime novels. His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was a Times bestseller, now translated into 15 languages, and introduced Inspector Chopra of the Mumbai police and his sidekick, a one-year-old baby elephant. The second in the series won a Shamus Award in America. In 2018, he was awarded the Eastern Eye ACTA (Arts, Culture and Theatre Award) for Literature. Vaseem was born in London, but spent a decade in India as a management consultant. Since 2006 he has worked at University College London’s Dept of Security and Crime Science including the Dawes Centre for Future Crime. Vaseem's Midnight at Malabar House, of the (so far) six-book Malabar House series, is set in Bombay in 1950 and introduces Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective. It 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 of the Year. In 2025, Vaseem's first psychological thriller, set in small town America, The Girl in Cell A, was published.
Vaseem has been commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate as the official author of the Q Mysteries, centring on the beloved Q (aka Major Boothroyd). Quantum of Menace, the first in the series, will be published on 23rd October 2025.
