Background
Tarquin Hall was born in 1969, in London, United Kingdom, to an English father and American mother.
2015
Lodhi Road Near Airforce Bal Bharati School, Lodhi Rd, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, Delhi 110003, India
Left to right: authors Tarquin Hall, Moderator Jane De Suza, authors Patrick Bryson, Zac O'Yeah during Crime Writers Festival at India Habitat Centre, on January 17, 2015, in New Delhi, India.
2007
Saint-Malo, France
Tarquin Hall while at Saint-Malo Book Fair in Saint-Malo, France, on May 27, 2007.
2007
Saint-Malo, France
Tarquin Hall while at Saint-Malo Book Fair in Saint-Malo, France, on May 27, 2007.
2009
Courmayer, Aosta, Italy
Tarquin Hall speaks at the "Vish Puri e il caso della domestica scomparsa" book presentation during the XIX Edition Courmayeur Noir In Festival on December 11, 2009 in Courmayer, near Aosta, Italy.
2010
Tarquin Hall, journalist, writer, author.
2015
New Delhi, India
Tarquin Hall during an exclusive interview with Brunch-Hindustan Times on January 15, 2015, in New Delhi, India.
2015
Lodhi Road Near Airforce Bal Bharati School, Lodhi Rd, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, Delhi 110003, India
Left to right: authors Tarquin Hall, Moderator Jane De Suza, authors Patrick Bryson, Zac O'Yeah during Crime Writers Festival at India Habitat Centre, on January 17, 2015, in New Delhi, India.
2019
Tarquin Hall, journalist, writer, author.
Tarquin Hall with his wife Anu Anand.
Tarquin Hall, journalist, writer, author.
Tarquin Hall, journalist, writer, author.
Tarquin Hall, journalist, writer, author.
(On India's northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on th...)
On India's northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam's paddy fields and murdering dozens of farmers. Local forestry officials, powerless to stop the elephant, call in one of India's last licensed elephant hunters and issue a warrant for the rogue's destruction. Reading about the ensuing hunt in a Delhi newspaper, journalist Tarquin Hall flies to Assam to investigate. To the Elephant Graveyard is the compelling account of the search for a killer elephant in the northeast corner of India, and a vivid portrait of the Khasi tribe, who live intimately with the elephants. Though it seems a world of peaceful coexistence between man and beast, Hall begins to see that the elephants are suffering, having lost their natural habitat to the destruction of the forests and modernization.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0858B4GNY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i4
2000
(Salaam Brick Lane is a journey of discovery by an outside...)
Salaam Brick Lane is a journey of discovery by an outsider in his own native city. After 10 years of living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiancee in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a townhouse, oozing Victorian charm, but in a squalid attic above a Bangladeshi sweatshop on London's Brick Lane. A grimy skylight provided the only window on their new world - a filthy, noisy street where drug dealers and prostitutes peddled their wares and tramps urinated on the pavements. Yet, as Hall got to know Brick Lane, he discovered beneath its unlovely surface an inner world where immigrants and asylum seekers struggle to better themselves and dream of escape.
https://www.amazon.com/Salaam-Brick-Lane-Year-East/dp/0719565561/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=salaam+brick+lane+tarquin+hall&qid=1594657449&sr=8-1
2005
(Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly...)
Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India's swindlers, cheats, and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri's main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri's resources to investigate. With his team of undercover operatives - Tubelight, Flush, and Facecreamn - Puri combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago and reveals modern India in all its seething complexity.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BDVUGW/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
2008
(A prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles whe...)
A prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles when a Hindu goddess appears from a mist and plunges a sword into his chest. The only one laughing now is the main suspect, a powerful guru named Maharaj Swami, who seems to have done away with his most vocal critic. Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator, master of disguise and lover of all things fried and spicy, doesn't believe the murder is a supernatural occurrence, and proving who really killed Dr. Suresh Jha will require all the detective's earthly faculties. To get at the truth, he and his team of undercover operatives - Facecream, Tubelight, and Flush - travel from the slum where India's hereditary magicians must be persuaded to reveal their secrets to the holy city of Haridwar on the Ganges.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L786U0/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3
2010
(When the elderly father of a top Pakistani cricketer play...)
When the elderly father of a top Pakistani cricketer playing in a new multimillion-dollar cricket league dies frothing at the mouth during a post-match dinner, it's not a simple case of Delhi Belly. His butter chicken has been poisoned. To solve the case, Puri must penetrate the region's organized crime, following a trail that leads deep into Pakistan - the country in which many members of the P.I.'s family were massacred during the 1947 partition of India. The last piece of the puzzle, however, turns up closer to home when Puri learns of the one person who can identify the killer. Unfortunately, it is the one person in the world with whom he has sworn never to work: his Mummy-ji.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0061Q6BE6/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2
2012
(Private investigator Vish Puri becomes embroiled in a hig...)
Private investigator Vish Puri becomes embroiled in a high-stakes mystery involving one of India's most controversial commodities: love. When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman's parents are dead set against the union. She's from a high-caste family; he's from the lowest strata of Indian society. Young Tulsi’s father locks her up and promises to hunt down the "loverboy dog." Fortunately, India's Love Commandos, a real-life group of volunteers dedicated to helping mixed-caste couples, come to the rescue. But just after they liberate Tulsi, Ram is mysteriously snatched from his hiding place. The task of finding him falls to India's "Most Private Investigator." Unfortunately, Vish Puri is not having a good month. He's failed to recover a cache of stolen jewels. His wallet has been stolen, and he's having to rely on his infuriating Mummy-ji to get it back. And to top it all, his archrival, investigator Hari Kumar, is also trying to locate Ram.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BSAONOA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i5
2013
(When a young woman comes forward claiming to be the reinc...)
When a young woman comes forward claiming to be the reincarnation of Riya Kaur, a wife and mother who vanished during the bloody 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Puri is dismissive. He's busy enough dealing with an irate matrimonial client whose daughter is complaining about her groom's thunderous snoring. Puri's indomitable Mummy-ji however is adamant the client is genuine. How else could she so accurately describe under hypnosis Riya Kaur's life and final hours? Driven by a sense of duty - the original case was his late father's - Puri manages to acquire the police file only to find that someone powerful has orchestrated a cover-up. Forced into an alliance with his mother that tests his beliefs and high blood pressure as never before, it's only by delving into the past the help of his reincarnated client that Puri can hope to unlock the truth.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZJP7C5P/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
2019
Tarquin Hall was born in 1969, in London, United Kingdom, to an English father and American mother.
Tarquin Hall has spent much of his adult life away from the United Kingdom, living in the United States, Pakistan, India, Kenya and Turkey, and traveling extensively in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. In his book Salaam Brick Lane, Hall recounts the events in the year that spent living above a Bangladeshi sweatshop located on Brick Lane in the East End of London. He has witnessed death and violence in Sudan, Somalia, and Afghanistan. Hall was referring to the experience of observing an elephant being tracked and shot in Assam, a remote, forested region on the northeastern frontier of India while doing research for his first book.
Apart from this, Tarquin Hall has also worked in the television news. He is a former bureau chief of the South Asian Associated Press TV. The subject matter that he had chosen has proved to be extraordinarily diverse. Hall has also written several features on a variety of topics like the hunters of Texan rattlesnake, the Urdu poets of British-Asian origin, Wilfred Thesiger, and the Taliban. The exclusive reports of Tarquin Hall consist of a profile on the marshes draining of Iraq by Saddam Hussein; an English woman named Emma McCune, who went on to marry the guerrilla commander of Southern Sudan, Riek Machar; as well as a one on one interaction with Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), in a safe house in Syria.
In 2009, Hall released his debut mystery novel The Case of the Missing Servant, which introduced the literary character of Punjabi origin named Vish Puri. As the novel begins, Vish Puri is introduced as the most accomplished private detective of India, operating from the hot and dusty regions of Delhi. In his own consideration, Puri thinks that he is superior to all the other detectives in the country. He often uses the old fashioned detective skills similar to the likes of Sherlock Holmes. Sometimes, he tends to go out of sync with the modern city's tempo, but he always makes use of his cleverness and the methods that work. He is nicknamed as Chubby by his friends and works with a team of employees having funny nicknames, such as Flush, Handcream, and Handbrake. At the start of the novel, Puri gets hired for carrying out a couple of investigations. In the first case, he is asked to do a background check of a man who is willing to marry a woman against the wishes of her father. The woman's father himself hires Puri to carry out the investigation. In the second case, Puri is told to investigate the missing servant of the house of a young and prominent lawyer from Punjab named Mary. The plot of this book offers a delicious combination of brilliant writing, ingenious story, sharp wit, and unsentimental and vivid description of contemporary India. From the first page of the book to the last page, the readers come across an affectionate sense of humor as well as intelligent insights into the mysteries of the human behavior and the subtleties of the Indian culture. The success of the first book of the Vish Puri mystery series was followed by four more novels in this series.
(When the elderly father of a top Pakistani cricketer play...)
2012(When a young woman comes forward claiming to be the reinc...)
2019(Private investigator Vish Puri becomes embroiled in a hig...)
2013(A prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles whe...)
2010(On India's northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on th...)
2000(Salaam Brick Lane is a journey of discovery by an outside...)
2005(Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly...)
2008Tarquin Hall lives in India and he touched the topic of arranged marriage in one of his books. In his opinion, it's better to have a choice, to be able to have a say and decide for yourself. And sometimes arranged marriages can be terrible, with people locked into an awful situation with someone they don't love - or worse with someone who persecutes them. But Hall has seen a lot of arranged marriages that work very well: people get on, learn to love one another and when times get tough sometimes it helps to feel this sense of commitment to not only a husband or wife but the rest of the extended family.
Tarquin Hall is married to the Indian-born BBC reporter and presenter Anu Anand. They have a young son and daughter.