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Le serveur de Brick Lane
Ajay Chowdhury
- Le Livre De Poche
- Le Livre De Poche Policier/thriller
- 1 Février 2023
- 9782253104193
Brick Lane. Dans ce quartier de Londres, jeans et parkas se mélangent aux saris, et les restaurants indiens proposent des currys aussi parfumés qu'au New Market de Calcutta. Kamil y est serveur depuis peu, mais son âme est celle d'un détective, et son modèle inavoué est Hercule Poirot. Forcé à l'exil après avoir perdu son poste de policier en Inde, il sert en toute illégalité des bhajis d'oignons aux hipsters de l'East End et du whisky Black Label dans les fêtes bling-bling sur les hauteurs de Hampstead Heath. Là, actrices de Bollywood et businessmen indiens se frôlent parfois d'un peu trop près au bord des piscines. Un accident est si vite arrivé... Mais de Londres à Calcutta, la mort a partout le même visage. Alors le serveur de Brick Lane troque son plateau contre sa casquette de détective, déterminé à affronter les fantômes du passé.Une comédie policière enlevée, piquante, souvent très drôle. France Inter.Traduit de l'anglais par Lise Garond.
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*A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH* ''This detective waiter has all the ingredients for a great crime series'' Sun ''A rip-roaring mystery that''s engrossing from start to finish... a refreshing and welcome addition to the world of detective fiction'' Abir Mukherjee author of Death in the East Kamil Rahman, disgraced detective, turned waiter, is about to find himself embroiled in a case that might just change his life...for better or for worse. Ex-detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the day he caters an extravagant party for his boss''s rich and powerful friend, the peace of his simple new life is shattered. The event is a success, the food is delicious, but later that evening the host, Rakesh, is found dead in his swimming pool. Suspicion falls on Rakesh''s young and glamorous new wife, Neha, and Kamil is called to investigate for the family, with the help of his boss''s daughter Anjoli. Kamil and Anjoli prove a winning team - but as the investigation progresses, and their relationship grows, Kamil struggles to keep memories of the case that destroyed his career in Kolkata at bay. Little does he know that his past will soon catch up with him in some very unexpected ways. ''[An] outstanding debut'' Sunday Times ''A hugely entertaining first novel, taking us from Kolkata to Brick Lane'' Ann Cleeves ''[Kamil Rahman is a] likeable inspector...we shall hear much more of him'' Daily Mail ''Corruption, self-interest and the considerable gap between law and justice raise their heads in [ The Waiter ]...Kamil makes an appealing narrator, haunted but gently humorous and always humane'' Guardian
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''Thrilling . . . a terrific series'' The Times Kamil Rahman used to be a detective in Kolkata. Now he''s a cook in London''s East End. Yet trouble still knows where to find him... Kamil Rahman thought his crimefighting days were behind him. But when a woman he knows is murdered and the police arrest the most convenient suspect, he hangs up his apron and employs his detective skills once more to find the true killer. Meanwhile, restaurant manager Anjoli is volunteering with a homeless charity, where she notices a sudden troubling increase in unexplained deaths among people sleeping rough in and around Brick Lane. With the council and police uninterested, she starts an investigation of her own. Kamil and Anjoli''s cases seem unrelated, but as the duo dig deeper, they discover connections that stretch from London to Lahore. Together they take on the indifference of the authorities . . . If the Met won''t find the murderers, then they will.
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From the award-winning author of THE WAITER comes the third instalment in the Detective Rahman series When a tech entrepreneur from Shoreditch is found dead in a construction site, along with three skeletons which are discovered to be over a hundred years old, Detective Kamil Rahman sets out to prove himself on his first case for the Met Police.
Praise for the Detective Rahman series:
''A rip-roaring mystery that''s engrossing from start to finish'' - ABIR MUKHERJEE ''This detective waiter has all the ingredients for a great crime series'' - SUN ''[Kamil is a] likeable inspector . . . We shall hear much more of him'' - DAILY MAIL ''An elegantly constructed thriller'' - THE TIMES ''Hugely entertaining'' - ANN CLEEVES ''An outstanding debut'' - SUNDAY TIMES -
