Author : Salil Desai
Publisher : Fingerprint! Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788172344177
An incredible collection of stories about people caught in the chaotic, cultural flux of urban India and their reactions to the problems, temptations and tricky choices that life throws at them.
Author : Salil Desai
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2024-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9357319352
After years of being married to an overbearing wife and wading through life pretending to be half-dead, Gajanan Godbole has finally found himself alone and, most importantly, free. Courtesy COVID. Lucky to have survived the pandemic by the skin of his teeth, Gajanan now discovers a side of his personality he never knew existed. Like a snake shedding its skin, Gajanan casts aside his meek old self and embraces his new homicidal avatar. To satiate his grudgeful urges, he compiles a list - of people he feels deserve to be punished for having wronged him. Apologize or die is his simple motto! For murder, he believes, is the perfect cure for nastiness...
Author : Various
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9357312846
A detective delves into a cold case; a ship that disappeared in the Bay of Bengal in the year 1913. A man is bludgeoned to death in an apartment and a piece of paper with the word 'STOP!' is nailed to his forehead. Six deaths under mysterious circumstances and the only common link is a box of arsenic-laced sweets. A soldier's homecoming dredges up memories of a murder that took place a decade ago in the family. And more... The first-ever anthology of its kind, The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction compiles more than 30 compelling whodunits spread across two volumes. Hybrid, self-reflexive and experimental forms of writing that blur the boundaries between genres, with supernatural mysteries, serial murders and at times absurd crimes jostling for the attention of both amateur and professional detectives in these stories. Red herrings simmered in blood gravy, served up with family feuds, ancient curses, long-haired lady sleuths and many other typical subcontinental chutneys provide a rare feast for the avid reader of crime fiction!
Author : Salil Desai
Publisher : Westland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 936045432X
A TAUTLY NARRATED POLICE PROCEDURAL, WITH PLENTY OF TWISTS AND TURNS Two victims—a woman lying dead on her bed, a man hanging from the ceiling fan. A suicide note cum murder confession. And a name—Shaunak Sodhi. When the case comes their way, Senior Inspector Saralkar has just been diagnosed with hypertension and PSI Motkar is busy rehearsing for an amateur play. What appears, at first, to be a commonplace crime by a debt-ridden, cuckolded husband, who has killed his unfaithful wife and then hung himself, soon begins to unfold as a baffling mystery. As clues point to a seven-year-old unsolved murder in Bangalore and other leads emerge closer home, Saralkar and Motkar find themselves investigating shady secrets, bitter grudges, fishy land deals, carnal desires, the dead woman’s sinister obsession with past life regression and her husband’s links to a suspicious, small-time god-man, Rangdev Baba. And then, suddenly, the murderer resurfaces and yet another life is in grave danger …. Can Saralkar and Motkar get to the bottom of the shocking motive and stop the killer from committing the fourth murder?
Author : Tarun K. Saint
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 935731587X
The professionals meet the amateurs in this first–ever anthology of Indian detective fiction. Volume 1 An elite squad detective from the future travels back in time to hunt down a time escapee. Across the city of Tokyo, liquids are turning blue, and elsewhere a Tamil actress is kidnapped. The gruesome murder of an adult industry star spirals into a web of deceit and leads to a bizarre revelation. A journalist races against time to find the missing link between the deaths of a daily soap actress, a classical vocalist and a famous painter. And more... Volume 2 A detective delves into a cold case; a ship that disappeared in the Bay of Bengal in the year 1913. A man is bludgeoned to death in an apartment and a piece of paper with the word 'STOP!' is nailed to his forehead. Six deaths under mysterious circumstances and the only common link is a box of arsenic–laced sweets. A soldier's homecoming dredges up memories of a murder that took place a decade ago in the family. And more... The first–ever anthology of its kind, The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction compiles more than 30 compelling whodunits, supernatural mysteries, serial murders and absurd crimes spread across two volumes. Through hybrid, self–reflexive and experimental forms of writing (including translations from Bengali and Tamil), this collection invites readers to unravel mysteries with every turn of the page, masterfully showcasing distinctive instances of the genre. Red herrings simmered in blood gravy, served up with family feuds, ancient curses, long–haired lady sleuths and many other typical subcontinental chutneys provide a rare feast for the avid reader of crime fiction! Featuring the works of: Volume 1 Satyajit Ray * Gopa Majumdar * Saradindu Bandopadhyay * Gopa Majumdar * Ambai * Gita Subramanian * Ankush Saikia * Meeti Shroff Shah * Suchitra Bhattacharya * Radha Chakravarty * Sujan DasGupta * Chandana Dutta * Anirudh Kala * Tamilvanan * Rabindranath Tagore * Shampa Roy * Anil Menon * Tanuj Solanki * Timeri Murari * Navin Weeraratne * Kehkashan Khalid * Sumit Bardhan * Kiran Manral * Shweta Taneja * Saad Z. Hossain Volume 2 Rajarshi Das Bhowmik * Arunava Sinha * Vikram Chandra * Giti Chandra * Swati Kaushal * Ajay Chowdhury * Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay * Debaditya Mukhopadhyay * Vish Dhamija * Salil Desai * Mahendra Jakhar * Sharatchandra Sarkar * Shampa Roy * Vaseem Khan * Nev March * Anuradha Kumar * Madhulika Liddle * Arjun Raj Gaind * Shashi Warrier * Avtar Singh For detailed content, please look inside the book. * Illustration continuity across covers and spine * 2–volume collectible (Royal 8vo hardback set) * A magnetic clasp box–wrap * Detective–element themed sprayed edges * Endpaper artwork by Manjula Padmanabhan
Author : Salil Desai
Publisher : Westland
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9360457698
AN EDGE-OF-THE-SEAT POLICE PROCEDURAL BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCEPTIONAL CRIME WRITERS IN INDIA: SALIL DESAI Pune Homicide Unit’s maverick cop Senior Inspector Saralkar is back at his desk after spending a rather annoying week at a ‘Secrets of Living’ course, held especially for police officers, and is itching for some action. Luckily for him, an exciting new case turns up right away. The body of Ashish Karve, a local businessman, has been found in the back seat of his car, with his wrists slit. To PSI Motkar, Saralkar’s diminutive assistant, it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. But Saralkar’s sharp mind is agog with the dark possibility of murder. As the case unfolds, Saralkar finds suspects and motives emerging thick and fast—Ashish’s business partner, his wife, his brother, his friend, his brother-in-law and even a stranger. Then Ashish’s pretty colleague, Suchitra, is strangled to death. As they struggle to sift the truth from lies and half-truths, will Saralkar and Motkar be able to prevent the third murder?
Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307957330
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Author : Salil Desai
Publisher : Inspector Saralkar Mysteries
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788175994256
Two corpses . . . a woman lying dead on her bed, a man hanging from the ceiling fan. A suicide note cum murder confession. And a name . . . Shaunak Sodhi. When the case comes their way, Senior Inspector Saralkar has just been diagnosed with hypertension and PSI Motkar is busy with rehearsals of an amateur play. What appears at first to be a commonplace crime by a debt-ridden, cuckolded husband, who has killed his unfaithful wife and then hung himself, soon begins to unfold as a baffling mystery. As clues point to a seven-year-old unsolved murder in Bangalore and other leads emerge closer home, Saralkar and Motkar find themselves investigating shady secrets, bitter grudges, fishy land deals, carnal desires, the dead woman Anushka Doshi' s sinister obsession with past life regression and her husband' s links to a suspicious, small-time god-man, Rangdev Baba.And then, suddenly, the murderer resurfaces and yet another life is in grave danger . . . Can Saralkar and Motkar get to the bottom of an unimaginably shocking motive and stop the malevolent killer from committing the fourth murder . . .?
Author : Taisia Kitaiskaia
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1449488242
Dear Baba Yaga, I think I must crave male attention too much. I fear that, without it, I would feel invisible. BABA YAGA: When you seek others this way, you are invisible nonetheless. Yr shawl is covered in mirrors in which others admire themselves; this is why they greet you so passionately. It is good to be seen, but it is better to see. Find a being to look hard into, & you will see yrself and what is more than you. In age-old Slavic fairy tales, the witch Baba Yaga is sought out by those with a burning need for guidance. In contemporary life, Baba Yaga—a dangerous, slippery oracle—answered earnest questions on The Hairpin for years. These pages collect her most poignant, surreal, and humorous exchanges along with all-new questions and answers for those seeking her mystical advice.
Author : Kristan Higgins
Publisher : HQN Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373777035
In a last-ditch effort to find the man of her dreams, Chastity O'Neil, an editor and soon-to-be spinster, gives online dating a try, with interesting results.
