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Author
Series
Perveen Mistry novels volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she's horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince's grand...
2) Thirst
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone"--
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A young magazine writer in Mumbai must prove her matchmaking skills-and contend with growing feelings for her close family friend-in this debut romance Jia Deshpande, the ever-confident stylish fashionista, is a writer with Mimosa, Mumbai's top women's magazine, where she begrudgingly writes cliché articles about finding "the one." Out of the office, Jia writes the messy truth of real love on her anonymous blog while balancing competitive family...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and...
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 6
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a Mumbai market, twin detectives Ethan and Ella investigate why a spice seller's spices have suddenly gone bad.
10) The blue monsoon
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Called to a shocking crime scene—a dismembered body on the steps of a Kaali temple, Mumbai Senior Inspector Arnav Singh Rajput, when a video of the murder is uploaded to a Bollywood social media influencer’s account, finds the savagery of the city beginning to surface—and no one is safe.
12) Sacred games
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Receiving an anonymous tip that could lead to the capture of a powerful criminal overlord, Bombay police officer Sartaj Singh is nearing his goal when he realizes that his imminent confrontation with the crime lord is part of a more sinister agenda.
13) The blue bar
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When women's dismembered bodies are unearthed on the outskirts of Mumbai, Inspector Amav Singh Rajput discovers a link between a decade's worth of missing persons reports and the disappearance of his own lover thirteen years earlier, leading him on the trail of a serial killer.
Author
Series
Baby Ganesh Agency investigations volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire--but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly...
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?"--...
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