In The Spotlight: Vaseem Khan’s The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

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Welcome to another edition of In The Spotlight. Modern Mumbai is a large and very diverse city. There are ultra-rich people, desperately poor people, and just about every kind of person in between. The city’s a blend, too, of contemporary, global life, and traditional India. With all of that vibrance and diversity, it’s also a very effective setting for a crime fiction series. Let’s look at one today and turn the spotlight on Vaseem Khan’s The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, the first of his Baby Ganesha Agency series.

Inspector Ashwin Chopra is about to retire from the Mumbai Police. He’s got mixed feelings about it, since he’s spent his career as a detective. But his doctors have advised him to take an early retirement, because he’s had a heart attack. And his wife, Archana ‘Poppy,’ is in complete agreement with what the doctors say. Soon, though…