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#blurb: Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband’s crumbling country estate, The Bridge. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. But inside her new home lies a locked room… Continue reading The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

#blurb:When a Mumbai politician is found wrapped in a plastic bag behind a park bench, DIG Ajay Biswas is asked to take over the case. Ajay arrives in Mumbai only to discover that his colleagues don’t want him there and that someone is deliberately providing false leads... Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 360 Buy it here My… Continue reading The Rat Eater by Anand Ranganathan and Chitra Subramaniam

#blurb:The first in a new Norwegian crime series featuring disgraced ex-Chief Inspector Thorkild Aske, a damaged man with a complicated past Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, disgraced ex-policeman Thorkild Aske only wants to lose himself in drugged dreams of his beloved Frei. Wild, unknowable Frei. The woman he loved.… Continue reading I Will Miss You Tomorrow by Heine Bakkeid

#blurb: Ease is a poetic journey within. It is an attempt to take a dive deep into the self, a place of acknowledgement, of appreciation and of a celebration our individuality is. The book revolves around the theme "comfortable in my own skin" as it touches the softness and the power of self love, self… Continue reading Ease by Mukhpreet Khurana

#blurb:Aspiring actress Priya is dead. It’s a suicide, and rumour has it that Anil, son of politician and former Telugu-movie superstar Mohan Krishna, drove her to it. Just another film-industry scandal? Or something bigger, much bigger? Partha, hired by Mohan Krishna’s family to handle the crisis, thinks so. Why won’t such a powerful father defend… Continue reading A Useful Death by Sriram Chellapilla

#blurb: It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. However the hunt takes a dark turn when a murder is committed. Author: Kate Saunders Publisher: Bloomsbury… Continue reading The Case of the Wandering Scholar by Kate Saunders

#blurb: 30 April 1924. At the Court of the King's Bench in London, the highest court in the Empire, an English judge and jury heard the case that would change the course of India's history: Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab - and architect of the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre -… Continue reading The Case that Shook the Empire by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat

#blurb: I once changed the history of this Uttar Pradesh with a gun and a finger. One shot, one man. Right man, wrong man. But that was thirty years ago. I shot people through their heads then. I pack jeera in a basement now. This is me and here is my story. He was the… Continue reading The Jeera Packer by Prashant Yadav

#blurb: A land of countless customs, few things in India get bigger than a big fat wedding. A marriage is a celebration which brings families and friends together. And the ceremony ends with the tradition of the bride leaving her parents' home and moving in with her husband. The groom always has a choice-he can… Continue reading Knotty Affairs by Chirag Bagadia

#blurb: Abhaya, a sixteen-year-old girl is abducted and forced into a life of endless torment. Every day is a new hell for her, oscillating between torture and death, with a quickly dimming flicker of hope that one day she will find her way back home. But will she? What does home really mean to a… Continue reading The Chronicle of Golgotha Days by Sujith Balakrishnan