SHE STOOPS TO KILL IBD

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Bulbul Sharma, Janice Pariat, Manjula Padmanabhan, Mitra Phukan, Paro Anand, Pratyaksha, Uddipana Goswami, Venita Coelho. Eight of India&rsquo,s best fiction writers come together to produce a book of intrigue and murders most foul. In Mitra Phukan&rsquo,s story that opens this edge-of-the-seat anthology, She Stoops to Kill: Stories of Crime and Passion, a singing diva chokes to death onstage. The weapon is a poisoned paan&mdash,but who would want her dead? And Pratyaksha follows Mitra&rsquo,s entrée with the murder of an equally glamorous victim&mdash,air hostess Ginny Kalra. Bulbul Sharma, in &lsquo,Murder in the Wedding Season&rsquo,, creates a cosy setting for a wedding in Shimla, but the guests include a politician and a timorous widow whose past will disrupt the party in ways no one had imagined. And in Uddipana Goswami&rsquo,s &lsquo,Beloved of Flowers&rsquo,, a folktale about a girl reborn as a lotus leads young Dino to the truth behind a mysterious disappearance. Manjula Padmanabhan&rsquo,s &lsquo,Serial Killer&rsquo, brilliantly explores what it is like to be a perfectly normal person&mdash,except that you enjoy the act of murder. While Janice Pariat&rsquo,s delicately nuanced &lsquo,The Nurse&rsquo, shows us another side of death altogether. In the penultimate story by Venita Coelho, Sister, a vigilante eunuch, helps the police solve a gruesome killing in a city slum. And Paro Anand brings the collection to a grand finale with a story that begins with lust and ends with a murder&mdash,or two&mdash,that may or may not have happened. By turns chilling, horrific and morbidly fascinating, She Stoops to Kill: Stories of Crime and Passion, is a steaming witches&rsquo, cauldron of stories that will keep you riveted, page after page.