NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BOOKS WE RECOMMEND THIS WEEK--The New York
Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST RECENT THRILLERS--The Guardian
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CRIME FICTION OF 2020 BY OPEN, THE MAGAZINE
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CRIME NOVELS OF NOVEMBER BY THE TIMES UK
For 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.
