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Death in the Air

Death in the Air
  • Author(s): Ram Murali
  • Location(s): Indian Himalayan Region
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Samsara, a world-class spa nestled in the Indian Himalayas where all your wishes are just a gilded notecard away. Ro Krishna has just checked in. With his rakish charm, Oxford education, perfect hair, he has it all...

Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus
  • Author(s): Rumer Godden
  • Location(s): Indian Himalayan Region
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

High in the Himalayas, the mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. Built for the General’s harem, laughter and music once floated out over the gorge. Now it sits abandoned, windswept and haunting. The palace is bestowed to the Sisters...

Sunbirds

Sunbirds
  • Author(s): Penelope Slocombe
  • Location(s): Indian Himalayan Region, Manali
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

In 1997 Anne’s eighteen-year-old son Torran walked out of his hotel in the notorious Himalayan town of Manali – and disappeared. Seven years later Anne is still searching, haunted by the idea that someone must know something, following every...

The Folded Part

The Folded Part
  • Author(s): Anuradha Roy
  • Location(s): Indian Himalayan Region
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord,...

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