Author: Ravi Shankar Etteth
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 355
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143031759
Description
The murderer began to laugh. He was confident that the police would come up with nothing.
When a diplomat at the Madagascan embassy in Delhi is stabbed to death in mysterious and quite possibly scandalous circumstances, the ambassador calls upon his old friend Jay Samorin to help find the murderer as quickly and discreetly as possible. In his somewhat unorthodox approach to solving crimes, Samorin crosses swords with the police officer in charge of the investigation, Deputy Commissioner Anna Khan, recently transferred from Kashmir where her zealous pursuit of suspected terrorists had threatened to cause an uproar. But it transpires that each has an intensely personal reason for their obsession with murder: Samorin's father, a pilot and war hero, was hanged for the murder of his mother, while Anna Khan's husband was killed by the Kashmiri Mujahadeen.
Forming an uneasy alliance, the gifted amateur and the jaded professional start to untangle a shocking web of corruption, prostitution and callous medical malpractice. It is a trail fraught with danger, tainted by the older, deeper mysteries that lie outside the more tangible boundaries of a criminal investigation-a trail leading back through the darkest recesses of their own lives to that elusive, haunted place known as the Village of Widows.
REVIEWS
Ravi Shankar Etteth creates a landscape that is at times dazzling and other times baffling and altogether riveting.
-Anita Nair, India Today
This book is mandatory reading for anyone who appreciates a whiff of fresh literary air. Brilliantly written and emotively captured, the nuances in this book will delight any lover of fiction.
-Indian Express
Etteth's prose style is poetically compelling.
-Pioneer
Captivating narrative, Ravi Shankar’s language is unbelievably energy-packed and vibrant. His exuberant narrative style is rich in rare details. Here’s a book one hates to put down even after reading the last page!
- Sahara Time
A good read, a riveting tale.
-The Tribune