Bøker av RV Raman

There's blood in the backwaters of Kerala BOLLYWOODDetective Harith Athreya is recuperating in the beautiful backwaters of Kerala when he meets a family of vacationing Bollywood royalty, who ask for his help making a murder mystery film. BANKRUPTCYBut the family is not what it seems- there are rumours of major money troubles, links to organised crime, and rivalry between the scions. BUTCHERYWhen one of them is found dead, murdered exactly like a victim in the film, Athreya puts his holiday on hold to solve the case. Is this the work of an angry co-star, or something more sinister?

Book 3 in the critically acclaimed cosy murder mystery series set in contemporary India, featuring the wise and gentle detective Harith Athreya - perfect for fans of Richard Coles, Ian Moore and Janice Hallett'Athreya is a fine detective with a curious mind' New York Times'An impressive force in the world of whodunnits' CrimeReads________________ISOLATIONDetective Harith Athreya is taking a well-earned break at a boutique hill in the Himalayan footfills. But his holiday is cut short when mysterious bloody handprints appear on the walls around the resort. INCRIMINATIONWhen a guest falls to her death, the hotelier casts suspicion on five young people who checked in at the same time as the victim but who all claim not to know her - or each other. INTRIGUEDoes one of these guests have something to do with the tragedy? Harith Athreya must get to the bottom of the case before the murderer strikes again... ________________PRAISE FOR THE HARITH ATHREYA MYSTERIES'Hugely engaging' Sunday Times'A slice of sheer pleasure... a proper, thorny puzzle' Observer'Like stepping back into the Golden Age of the classic mystery' Rhys Bowen'Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie [and] Arthur Conan Doyle' Harini Nagendra

'A rollercoaster... perfect for fans of Agatha Christie' Harini Nagendra, author of The Bangalore Detectives ClubSECRETSSeasoned detective Harith Athreya is back, this time to investigate suspicious thefts on a riverside dig in the heart of remote Bundelkhand, steeped in myth and history.SUPERSTITIONHere the legend goes that anyone who sets foot on nearby island Naaz Tapu will be cursed foreverSLAUGHTERWhen an archeologist defies local folklore, the fallout is swift and deadly. Is the death a result of the ancient curse, or is it a more down-to-earth case of murder? Athreya needs to unravel the truth from legend before the curse strikes again...PRAISE FOR RV RAMAN'A slice of sheer pleasure... a proper thorny puzzle' Observer'Hugely entertaining' Sunday Times'Athreya is a fine detective with a curious mind' New York Times

NAMED ONE OF THE "TEN BOOKS WE RECOMMEND THIS WEEK"-The New York TimesNAMED ONE OF THE "BEST RECENT THRILLERS"-The GuardianNAMED ONE OF THE BEST CRIME FICTION OF 2020 BY OPEN, THE MAGAZINENAMED ONE OF THE BEST CRIME NOVELS OF NOVEMBER BY THE TIMES UKFor fans of Knives Out, a book that embodies all the things we love about Agatha Christie-a haunted manor house, estranged relatives a will, and a murder- set in modern-day India, and the first in a series from author RV Raman. Aging and wheelchair-bound patriarch Bhaskar Fernandez has finally reclaimed his family property after a bitter legal battle, and now wants to reunite his aggrieved relatives. So, he invites them to remote Greybrooke Manor in the misty Nilgiris -a mansion that has played host to several sudden deaths; a colonial edifice that stands alone in a valley that is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Englishman. But Bhaskar has other, more practical problems to deal with. He knows that his family is waiting for him to die to regain the family fortune, and to safeguard himself against violence during the house party, he writes two conflicting wills. Which one of them comes into force depends on how he dies. Into this tinderbox, he brings Harith Athreya, a seasoned investigator. When a landslide occurs, temporarily isolating them all at the mansion, and resulting in a murder, Athreya finds that murder is not the only thing the mist conceals. A WILL TO KILL is the first Harith Athreya mystery.

Mist, mountains, murder...