Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bombay Monsoon | 2022 | James W. Ziskin | Buy |
James W. Ziskin is best known for the Ellie Stone mystery series, but Bombay Monsoon shows a different side of his writing. The 2022 novel is a thriller set in India in 1975, during the period known as the Emergency when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi suspended civil liberties and ruled by decree. The book follows Danny Jacobs, an American expatriate journalist who has just arrived in Bombay and gets caught up in the country’s political turmoil.
Ziskin spent nearly four years living, working, and traveling in India, and that firsthand experience informs the novel’s setting. Bombay Monsoon moves away from the 1960s American settings of the Ellie Stone books while keeping Ziskin’s trademark focus on flawed but compelling protagonists and carefully researched historical detail.