India, Oct. 3 -- Lucknow, 1829. The glittering capital of Awadh stands at the zenith of its splendour. As the sacred days of Muharram draw to their solemn climax, thousands of mourners are about to gather beneath the minarets of the Asafi Imambara. Among them is the young Mirza Ghalib, already a poet of renown. Invited to witness Lucknow's commemorations of the martyrdom of Imam Hussain at Karbala, Ghalib expects an unforgettable encounter with poetry, faith, and history. Instead, he witnesses a man plunge to his death from the summit of the Imambara's towering minaret. Was it an accident? Or was the dead man a victim of a conspiracy? As Ghalib is drawn into the mystery, the body count keeps on rising. Murder at the Imambara is both a historical mystery and an immersive portrait of nineteenth-century Lucknow with the Asafi Imambara looming over its pages as a silent, brooding presence....