The Mussoorie Murders
Mussoorie, 1909. A woman is found dead inside a hotel room locked from within, and the shock of it travels far enough to reach the desks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling themselves. Neither can pin down the culprit. The case goes cold. Then, roughly six decades on, history appears to repeat itself in the same hill town, when a wealthy heiress turns up murdered under eerily familiar circumstances. The suspects are a curious lot: a long-serving housekeeper, a brother who'd rather not be found, a distant husband, and a self-styled holy man with a devoted follower in tow. Each one carries a reason to want her gone. Enter Avijit Sikdar, an Oxford-educated detective with a fondness for Doyle and Kipling, who catches wind of the case and finds himself tugged between two timelines, searching for the thread that binds a pair of seemingly impossible crimes. It's a properly absorbing premise. Bhatnagar weaves the dual narratives with enough intrigue to keep you second-guessing at every turn, and Sikdar makes for an engaging protagonist. Readers who enjoy their mysteries layered with history and literary flavour will find plenty to savour here.
- Author: Divyaroop Bhatnagar
- Publisher: Om Books International
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-9353768966
- Pages: 216 pages