Vaseem Khan & Abir Mukherjee

Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee, both best selling and award winning crime writers and co-hosts of The Red Hot Chilli Writers podcast talk with Julie Anderson about their latest books, writing in different crime genres and which one of them is the most interesting.

Abir Mukherjee writes the best-selling Wyndham & Banerjee series of crime novels set during the British Raj in India. He also writes contemporary crime thrillers. Hunted won the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year 2025. Others of his books have won numerous awards including the Crime Writers Association His-

torical Dagger, the Prix du Polar Européen, the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing and the Amazon Publishing Readers’ Award for E-book of the Year.

Vaseem Khan is the author of several award-winning crime series including the Baby Ganesh Agency adventures and the Malabar House historical crime novels, the latter set in 1950s Bombay. Midnight at

Malabar House, the first in that series, won the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger. Vaseem is also the author of The Girl in Cell A, a psychological thriller set in small-town America, and Quantum

of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond.