Until Death

DS Mumtaz Ali #1

by Alex Khan

‘Brilliantly original, with characters that jump off the page. Highly recommended and a huge 5 stars from me.’ Angela Marsons

It was the wedding of the year. Millie Beaumont marrying billionaire playboy Oscar Hayat, the eyes of the world watching.

But the dream turns into a nightmare when Millie and Oscar are brutally abducted while on honeymoon. Millie is killed, her body dumped in London. Oscar is still missing …

Enter DS Mumtaz ‘Moomy’ Khan - not your typical police officer. Moomy is running from her own troubled past, while colleague Sarah Heaton is having to live with the hard choices she has made. Yet they will stop at nothing to find Millie’s murderers and track down Oscar. Only a family as high profile as the Hayats have enemies lurking in every corner - have they taken the ultimate revenge, or is someone else behind the death and kidnapping?

And can Moomy find Oscar - before time runs out and he suffers the same fate as his wife?

The first book in the gripping, fast-paced new DS Mumtaz Ali crime series, this book was previously called The Unbroken. Fans of A.A. Dhand, Ajay Chowdhury and Robert Bryndza won’t be able to put this down.

Genres: Crime

350 pages, Paperback

Published May 4, 2023

Reviews

[melissa˙⋆✮ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Took me so long to read this book 🥲 because it was so confusing. the chapters kept switching to different pov’s which i thought would be interesting but it was just so confusing and hard to keep on top of who was who.
the story was ok, nothing special, but the ending was TERRIBLE. felt like such a waste of time. so many storylines just weren’t rounded off and it was just very disappointing.

[Miss Sherlock · Rating 1 out of 5]

This disappointed me in so many ways.

[Oliver Dowson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like books that follow the principle of “this is extremely unlikely but nevertheless plausible” but I found this completely implausible and the juxtaposition of two women detectives, one a totally lapsed free agent and the other a white English partial convert, insufficiently explained to the point of irritation. Well-written, and engaging to the end, though.

[Fi Mash · Rating 1 out of 5]

Taken me so long to read this as I kept having to go back and forth to try to work out who was who. Probably the worst book i’ve read in a long time. It was a slog.

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed the two female lead parts with their underlying story threading through.

[Stacey Ormsby · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the two female leads however I got a bit lost with many of the other characters and their role in the story. I think this had the potential to be a great original novel but there was too much going on for me. Maybe I need to read others in the series for it to make mores sense?