A Mumbai Murder Mystery

Meeti Shroff-Shah
Works of: Fiction

Amongst the Gujaratis in the rarefied circles of Mumbai’s posh Temple Hill, there is nothing more tragic than the loss of face. Not even loss of life.

Award-winning novelist Radhi Zaveri returns home to Temple Hill in search of a salve for her broken heart, but what she finds instead is a terrible tragedy. Her best friend Sanjana, who is expecting her first child, has just lost her father – to suicide.

Cantankerous and pig-headed, Kirti Kadakia has never walked away from a fight. And yet, just hours after telling Sanjana that he couldn’t wait to hold his grandchild in his arms, he kills himself. Sanjana is in shock. What happened that day? Why is their young maid so terrified? And who was that second cup of tea for—the one they found in his study? As Radhi helps Sanjana look for answers, she realizes that Kadakia’s own family knows much more than they are letting on, and more than one life might hang in the balance.

A whodunit like no other, A Mumbai Murder Mystery unearths the secrets lurking beneath the diamond-studded satsangs and the lavishly catered ‘pure-veg’ brunches to expose the terrible price people pay to keep up appearances.