Have you been wanting a little more mystery in your life?
How about an atmospheric page-turner featuring a detective determined to stop a serial killer—and find his lost lover—that keeps you guessing until the very last page?
We’re bringing you a surprise cover reveal for exactly such a book this week!
About the Book
On the dark streets of Mumbai, the paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector with a haunted past converge in an evocative thriller about lost love and murderous obsession.
After years of dancing in Mumbai’s bars, Tara Mondal was desperate for a new start. So when a client offered her a life-changing payout to indulge a harmless, if odd, fantasy, she accepted. The setup was simple: wear a blue-sequined saree, enter a crowded railway station, and escape from view in less than three minutes. It was the last time anyone saw Tara.
Thirteen years later, Tara’s lover, Inspector Arnav Singh Rajput, is still grappling with her disappearance as he faces a horrifying new crisis: on the city’s outskirts, women’s dismembered bodies are being unearthed from shallow graves. Very little links the murders, except a scattering of blue sequins and a decade’s worth of missing persons reports that correspond with major festivals.
Past and present blur as Arnav realizes he’s on the trail of a serial killer and that someone wants his investigation buried at any cost. Could the key to finding Tara and solving these murders be hidden in one of his cold cases? Or will the next body they recover be hers?
About the Author
Damyanti Biswas is an author, blogger, animal-lover, spiritualist. Her work has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, Ambit, Pembroke Review, Griffith Review among many others in the US, UK, and Australia. She also serves as one of the editors of the The Forge literary magazine.
Her Indian debut literary crime novel You Beneath Your Skin is an Amazon bestseller, and optioned for the screens by Endemol Shine. Her next novel, The Blue Bar, is slated for publication in Fall 2022.
You can follow her on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Goodreads, and BookBub.
And now for the moment we’ve all been waiting for!
Congratulations, Damyanti!
