The Shadow by Ajay Chowdhury. Published in 2025 by Harvill Secker, an imprint of Vintage, Penguin Random House UK, One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens, London SW11 7BW. Pp: 372. Price: £ 14.99, Rs 719.
Ajay Chowdhury, author of The Shadow, is quite the modern Renaissance man. He is not merely a writer of crime fiction and the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland crime fiction award, but is also the author of Ayesha and the Firefish, a children’s book, and artistic director of the Rented Space Theatre Company as well as a tech entrepreneur, to mention a few of......