Samyukta Bhowmick is a lifelong devotee of the Golden Age of crime fiction, written between the 1920s and 1940s, and its uniquely unsettling combination of outward respectability and inner turmoil. Born in Calcutta, raised in Kuwait and educated largely in the United States, she now lives in Delhi with her two children, her husband and her cat.
<p>Finally, an Indian murder mystery that’s truly fun and satisfying When DB, the mild-mannered editor of a Delhi tabloid, is poisoned, everyone is puzzled. He had no enemies. Who would possibly want to kill him? When there are more murders, the TV stations, the police—and the nation!—go into a frenzy. </p><p>Two mismatched journalists team up to solve the mystery:</p><p>Mridula, a waspish, middle-aged misanthrope, and Monami, youthful, eager and passionate about detective fiction. As the bodies pile up, Mridula and Monami must go deep into the mind of a murderer.</p><div><br></div>
