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The Rossogolla Murders

The Rossogolla Murders
  • Author(s): Debeshi Gooptu
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A retired judge drops dead at a swish party in Kolkata. The needle of suspicion points to Punjabi mirchi Dolly Luthra. Now it’s up to her friend, the strait-laced Mrinalini Sen, to don the detective’s hat and clear Dolly’s...

The Royal Rebel: The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

The Royal Rebel: The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
  • Author(s): Bali Rai, Rachael Dean (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): India, England
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th century, 20th century

Rebel, Princess, Suffragette: this is the incredible true story of the life of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, a forgotten heroine of the early twentieth century. Born in 1876, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was the daughter of the last Sikh...

The Rules of Arrangement

The Rules of Arrangement
  • Author(s): Anisha Bhatia
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Current

Zoya Sahni has a great education, a fulfilling job and a loving family (for the most part). But she is not the perfect Indian girl. She’s overweight, spunky and dark-skinned in a world that prizes the slim, obedient and...

The Sari Shop

The Sari Shop
  • Author(s): Rupa Bajwa
  • Location(s): Amritsar
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Young Ramchand rushes through the dusty streets of Amritsar, once again late for work. Chastised by his boss, he takes his place among the cottons and silks of the sari shop, selling yards of cloth to the wealthy and...

The Satapur Moonstone

The Satapur Moonstone
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): Western Ghats
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly...

The Secret Detectives

The Secret Detectives
  • Author(s): Ella Risbridger
  • Location(s): India, England
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th century

A gripping historical mystery for 9+ readers from an incredible new voice in children’s fiction. When Isobel Petty is orphaned, she finds herself being taken away from her home in India and sent to live with a distant uncle...

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
  • Author(s): Alka Joshi
  • Location(s): Jaipur
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Jaipur Trilogy 2 A NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HENNA ARTIST, A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK ‘Captivated me from the first chapter to the last page.’ Reese Witherspoon on The Henna Artist In New York Times bestselling...

The Secret of Elephants

The Secret of Elephants
  • Author(s): Vasundra Tailor
  • Location(s): Navsari, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century/present

Navsari, India. Penniless and trapped in a loveless marriage, Nirmala spends her days anxiously caring for her sick young son, Varun. Looming over Nirmala’s impoverished home is an imposing mansion built by her grandfather, and from its balcony her...

The Secret of More

The Secret of More
  • Author(s): Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Into the beating heart of Bombay, a city that spins cotton into gold, a young man, Tatya, arrives to make a living. Ambitious and hard-working, he begins to make a name for himself in the city’s famed textile market....

The Secrets Between Us

The Secrets Between Us
  • Author(s): Thrity Umrigar
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge...

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