Product Description
The Waiter
Author: Ajay Chowdhury
Format: Paperback
*As seen on The One Show*
* a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month *
'Hugely entertaining' — Ann Cleeves
'An outstanding debut' — Sunday Times
Ex-detective Kamil Rahman is embroiled in a case that might just change his life - for better or for worse . . .
Disgraced detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the peace of his new life is soon shattered. The day Kamil caters an extravagant party, the powerful host, Rakesh, is found dead in his swimming pool.
Suspicion falls on Rakesh's young and glamorous new wife, and Kamil is called to investigate for the family. Kamil and Anjoli, his boss's daughter, prove a winning team - yet as the case progresses, and their relationship grows, the events of Kamil's past threaten to catch up with him . . .
'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
About the Author
Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children’s book – Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco. Eden Falls, his first standalone thriller, was published in July 2026.
The Waiter (Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures. The Patriot is the latest book in the series.
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