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Guardian Reading Challenge 2010-2011
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Featured Posts: Indian authors
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Book review: A Mysterious Death at Sainik Farms by Rukmani Anandani
Genre: Detective fiction Publisher: Rupa Pub date: 2012 Source: Author Synopsis Ugrasen is a successful businessman and a domineering patriarch living at Sainik farms with his large extended family. When he drops dead, rather suddenly, it looks like it was death by natural cause. By his 14-year-old niece Anjali believes there is more to it [...]
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Book Review: Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
Genre: Mystery, Social commentary Publisher: Harper Collins Pub date: 15 April 2010 Source: Personal copy Synopsis Thirteen members of a family are found brutally murdered in Jullundar, a small town in Punjab. 14-year-old Durga is the only survivor, found tied to her bed with obvious signs of abuse. She is held in police custody as [...]
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Book Review: Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
Genre: Historical fiction, Young adult Publisher: Penguin Group USA (Speak) Pub date: 2008 Source: Personal Synopsis Set in India in 1940, Climbing the Stairs is the story of a young girl, Vidya whose biggest dream is to be allowed to go to college. During a peaceful protest march, her father is badly injured and Vidya’s [...]
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Book Review: The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Genre: Historical fiction Publisher: Picador India Pub date: 2008 Source: Personal copy Synopsis Panchaali or Draupadi as she was better known tells the Mahabharata from her point of view. The women in epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata always had secondary roles to play. The ones who had larger roles to play invariably became the [...]
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Book Review: The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
Genre: Literary fiction Publisher: Hachette Book Group (Grand Central) Pub date:15 June 2011 Source:Publisher via NetGalley When I first read the synopsis for this book, it sounded like a dark version of the Secret Garden with some magical elements thrown in. I was very taken with that book when I was a kid and was [...]
Featured Posts: Crime Fiction
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Book Review: The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Genre: Crime fiction Series: Series Q #1 Publisher: Penguin Group USA (Dutton) Pub date: 18 Aug 2011 Source: Publisher via NetGalley Synopsis Carl Mørck was one of the top homicide detectives in Copenhagen. But when he loses two colleagues and is almost killed on a case, Mørck loses his edge and is guilt ridden at [...]
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Book Review: Long Gone by Alafair Burke
Genre: Crime fiction Publisher: Harper Collins (Harper) Pub date: 21 June 2011 Source: Publisher Synopsis After months of struggle following a layoff, Alice Humphrey gets an offer that seems too good to be true. She is approached by Drew Campbell who wants to hire her to manage an art gallery for a secretive art connoisseur. [...]
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Book Review: Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers (Audiobook)
Genre: Detective fiction Series: Lord Peter Wimsey #6 Publisher: BBC WW Pub date: 26 Feb 2009 Source: Personal copy Format: Audiobook Narrator: Ian Carmichael Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins Synopsis Mystery writer Harriet Vane has been accused of murdering her ex-lover Phillip Boyes by poisoning him with arsenic. Harriet does know an awful lot about [...]
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Book Review: A Hard Death by Jonathan Hayes
Genre: Crime fiction Publisher: Harper Collins Pub date: April 2011 Source: Publisher Synopsis Brilliant forensic pathologist Edward Jenner has moved from New York to coastal Florida. The ordeal of the Inquisitor killings (in Precious Blood) still haunt him and the political fallout from it hasn’t cleared up yet. In Douglas County, Jenner is working with [...]
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Book Review: Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
Genre: Detective fiction Series: Tess Monaghan #1 Publisher: HarperCollins (William Morrow) Pub date: 2007 Source: Personal copy This book chronicles Tess Monaghan’s very first case. If you’ve been reading my blog, you might have noticed my fan girl sort of review for Laura Lippman’s latest Tess Monaghan book – The Girl in the Green Raincoat. [...]
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