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  • Published: 18 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529977714
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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The Pinnacle




When Bollywood's sweetheart is found murdered in Mumbai's most exclusive apartment complex - The Pinnacle - her American husband becomes the prime suspect. But someone in that building knows he's innocent... because they're guilty

James Abercrombie is a Hollywood actor who’s past his prime. Ten years ago, he was box office. These days he’s more boxed wine and coffee adverts.

But they still love him in Asia. On the set of a whisky commercial, he meets the beautiful Sweety Sahota, India’s queen of Bollywood, beloved by billions. Marrying her might revive his fortunes.

They move to Mumbai and into The Pinnacle. Sweety’s career continues to sky-rocket. James’s not so much. He hates India – it’s hot and dirty and crowded and the food upsets his stomach. Soon the marriage is in trouble. Is she cheating on him? The papers seem to think so. They have a clandestine photo of her with her ex-boyfriend, Bollywood heart-throb Chunky.

James hits the bottle, and after one particularly drunken session, wakes in the apartment to find Sweety dead in their bed, her throat slit. Did he kill her? He’s sure he didn’t, but who the hell’s going to believe him?

He needs to find out who killed his wife and why, and he needs to do it fast; before the crime is pinned on him, because, let’s face it, he’s not going to get a fair trial. If he doesn’t work it out, he's as good as dead.

  • Published: 18 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529977714
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

About the author

Abir Mukherjee

Abir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of the award-winning Wyndham & Banerjee series of crime novels set in Raj-era India. He has won the CWA Historical Dagger and the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger, and HWA Gold Crown. His novels, A Rising Man and Smoke and Ashes were both selected as Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Smoke and Ashes was also chosen as one of The Times’ Best Crime and Thrillers since 1945. Abir grew up in Scotland and now lives in Surrey with his wife and two sons.

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Praise for The Pinnacle

Abir Mukherjee scales new heights. Only Murders in the Building meets White Tiger. Funny and charming, but with bite. Abir's books are always so pacy, absorbing and entertaining that we don't notice that he's subtly teaching us something. I'm very glad he is

Anna Mazzola

The most thrilling of thrillers . . . it felt like the pages turned themselves. Absolutely compulsive reading

Liz Nugent

There could not be a more appropriate title for this towering thriller from a writer at the very top of his game

Mark Billingham

A propulsive plot meets witty, pitch-perfect writing. The Pinnacle is high-class crime fiction and a biting satire, funnier than a book about murder has any right to be. A career best from an enviably talented and versatile novelist

Erin Kelly

The Pinnacle shows Abir Mukherjee moving effortlessly into the top class of thriller writers … with fascinating insights into the life of the very rich - and very poor - in Mumbai. It’s also very funny’

Mick Herron

Proper edge-of-seat tension . . . Fast-paced, funny, yet dark as hell, it’s a compelling read

Harriet Tyce

From top to bottom a cracking thriller stuffed solid with sass, sleaze and smiles - l loved it.

Morgan Cry

A riveting and extremely funny thriller which really brings to life Mumbai's glitzy high-flying uber-rich and the down in the muck gangsters who support them

Ajay Chowdhury

A tremendous thriller that showcases its author's panache, wit and wisdom. I raced through the pages, soaking up the highs and lows of Mumbai, cheering for the oddball cast of characters, and picturing it all too easily on the big screen. A smash-hit from start to finish

Sarah Hilary

The Pinnacle is a superbly realised, expertly plotted murder mystery that drew me into its mad Mumbai world from the first page. Abir Mukherjee is so good at making you care about his characters as they plunge ever deeper into disaster. The Pinnacle is brilliantly entertaining - fast paced, funny and clever - and it delivers a truly satisfying ending. A real treat

Jane Casey

The Pinnacle is aptly named as it shows Abir Mukherjee at the height of his powers. Turning emotionally on a sixpence from deadly serious to laugh out loud funny, this high rise, high tension, high stakes thriller will be the novel of the summer and beyond

Martyn Waites

A tour de bloody force. Impossible to put down. This is Abir Mukherjee at his very best

Imran Mahmood

Prepare to be blown away by The Pinnacle . . . a thrilling plot that thunders along on a tidal wave of wit and action. Dark, funny, shocking, it’s easily his best book yet.

Janice Hallett

'A deliciously twisting plot, vividly realised sense of place and scalpel-sharp satire . . . Wildly entertaining and gripping.'

Lucy Foley

In The Pinnacle Abir Mukherjee uses his razor-sharp wit to create a novel that is at once a fascinating mystery and a scintillating social critique. A fresh and addictive experience

S.A. Cosby, author of King of Ashes

A deliciously twisting plot, vividly realised sense of place and scalpel-sharp satire . . . Wildly entertaining and gripping

Lucy Foley