Abir Mukherjee

As always, I hope that you're well and I really hope that you're enjoying your week.

And the reason why I'm laughing and the reason why I'm going to get straight on with the show is because my guest is... best-selling and award-winning author of the Wyndham and Banerjee series and Hunted, which won the British Book Award of the Year and the Feakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2025, Abir Mukherjee.

And the problem of Abir Mukherjee and I is that we spent a good 10 minutes before we officially started recording talking absolute nonsense and And he wanted me to let you know that we spent those first 10 minutes talking about generational wealth, which sounds a bit responsible.

And also writer's slabby ass.

That's what he wanted me to say.

So I am saying it.

In addition to that, we spoke about Abir's new novel, The Pinnacle.

Abir Mukherjee and I spoke about how he spent 20 years as a mergers and acquisitions specialist and then won a crime writing competition with a book he hadn't finished, how he sent his manuscript to the Avengers of crime fiction, and how he proved that British Asian crime fiction could could be commercially successful.

Totally.

Well, listen, as an aside, obviously, we're here at Bloody Scotland, and I was chairing a panel just at lunchtime today with Abir Mukherjee and Chris Spruckmeyer.

And Chris brilliantly, at the end of it, read some of his translator's questions about dialect and about language when it was being translated for the first time into French.

And he said the clue is it was in the first time, i.e. the translator perhaps wasn't the greatest translator of all time, but it was brilliant because so many of the things that came back were like, what's Hingme? That's

[laughs] You, you won't be the first to, to, to accuse the CIA of not being completely, uh, lovely.

Uh, Abir, you had a question.

Yeah.

So, so I just wanna pick you up on y- you mentioned anger there.