Ajay Chowdhury was the inaugural winner of the Harvill
Secker-Bloody Scotland crime fiction award. He is a tech
entrepreneur and theatre director who was born in India and now
lives in London where he builds digital businesses, cooks
experimental dishes for his wife and daughters and writes through
the night. His children's book, Ayesha and the Firefish, was
published in 2016 and adapted into a musical.
The Waiter, published in 2021, 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. Follow-up The
Cook was published in May 2022 to excellent reviews and deals with
the issue of homelessness. The third book in the series - The
Detective - is about government surveillance and AI. The Spy is the
fourth book in the Detective Kamil Rahman series.
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