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Book SynopsisMIST, MOUNTAINS, MURDER. Ageing millionaire Bhaskar Fernandez has invited his relatives to the remote, and possibly haunted, Greybrooke Manor, high up in the misty Nilgiris. He knows his guests expect to gain from his death, so he writes two conflicting wills. Which one of them comes into force will depend on how he dies. Fernandez also invites Harith Athreya, a seasoned investigator, to watch what unfolds. When a landslide leaves the estate temporarily isolated, and a body is discovered, Athreya finds that death is not the only thing that the mist conceals. . .
Trade Review'I love RV Raman's Harith Athreya with his cool, curious resourcefulness.
A Will To Kill is
a good traditional mystery with twists and turns set in a colonial era mansion in the Nilgiri Hills' - Ovidia Yu, author of CWA-shortlisted THE MIMOSA TREE MYSTERY
'Like stepping back to the
Golden Age of the classic mystery' - Rhys Bowen, the international bestselling author of THE TUSCAN CHILD
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Modern-day take on the classic locked-room murder mystery... Athreya is a fine detective with a curious mind' - New York Times
'The influence of
Agatha Christie and
John Dickson Carr on the narrative is
compelling...influences of author
Ngaio Marsh...
subtle, clear, ironic, but always elegant and peppered with wit; characters sharply, sometimes hilariously, drawn' - The Telegraph India
'We may not have our own Sherlock or Poirot, but
the narrative tradition of Christie and Doyle has found a worthy successor in RV Raman. I cannot wait to read more of Harith Athreya's adventures' - National Herald India
