The Man with the Golden Compass

By Vaseem Khan

The brand-new murder mystery for former MI6 Head of Q Branch to solve in this James Bond spin-off series

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Adult fiction

Published: 22/10/2026

ISBN number: 9781804188699

Price: £20.00

Imprint: Zaffre

Edition: Hardback

Genre: Murder Mystery

The Man with the Golden Compass

By Vaseem Khan

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Adult fiction

Published: 22/10/2026

ISBN number: 9781804188699

Price: £20.00

Imprint: Zaffre

Edition: Hardback

Genre: Murder Mystery

The brand-new murder mystery for former MI6 Head of Q Branch to solve in this James Bond spin-off series

Tremendous fun! Smart and stylish, with all the wit and ingenuity you'd expect from Q Branch. The Q Mysteries will delight Bond and Christie fans alike

Tom Hindle

Dismissed from MI6’s Q Branch, where he developed weapons and field technology, Major Boothroyd (aka ‘Q’) has found a new lease of life as an amateur detective in his sleepy hometown of Wickstone-on-Water.

Fresh from successfully solving the murder of his childhood friend, Q is now hired by the police to re-examine the unsolved killing of Lawrence Noble, a tech millionaire turned online antique dealer.

Why was Noble tortured before his death? What is the significance of the circular golden object inscribed with mysterious runes found by his body?

As Q investigates, danger stalks those around him, and he soon finds himself dragged into a chilling conspiracy where past and present meet in a way he could not possibly have imagined . . .

Authors

Vaseem Khan

Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India, the Baby Ganesh Agency series set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels set in 1950s Bombay. His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020, and is translated into 17 languages. The second in the series one a Shamus Award in the US. In 2021, Midnight at Malabar House won the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger and was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Vaseem was born in England, but spent a decade working in India. In 2006, he returned to the UK and joined University College London’s Department of Security and Crime Science, where he has helped manage the Dawes Centre for Future Crime. In 2023, Vaseem was elected the first non-white Chair of the 70-year-old UK Crime Writers Association.

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