7/25/2023 0 Comments Under a red moom![]() "Set in 1921 Bangalore, Nagendra’s superb sequel to 2022’s The Bangalore Detectives Club plunges amateur sleuth Kaveri Murthy into a case involving the family of her physician husband, Ramu. ![]() It’s a pleasure to enter Kaveri’s clever mind, and Nagendra wraps the story in a message of women’s empowerment." "Should you be on the market for a new literary detective, you’d be hard pressed to find one more charming than Kaveri Murthy, the main character of Harini Nagendra’s mystery series set in 1920s India. Sarah Weinman, New York Times Book Review Against a roiling political backdrop - the women’s suffrage movement is growing, as is anti-British sentiment - Kaveri and Bhargavi come to a deeper understanding of each other." "I'm pleased to report that Murder Under a Red Moon exceeds all my expectations. The Bangalore Detectives Club, the first book in the Detective Kaveri mysteries, is her first novel. ![]() She received a 2013 Elinor Ostrom Senior Scholar Award and a 2007 Cozzarelli Prize with Elinor Ostrom from the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences for research on sustainability. Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India, and the author of Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present and Future. So she must now draw on her wits and find the killer. Together with the Bangalore Detectives Club-a mixed bag of street urchins, nosy neighbours, an ex-prostitute, and a policeman's wife- Kaveri once again sleuths in her sari and hunts for clues in her beloved 1920s Ford.īut when her life is suddenly put in danger, Kaveri realizes that she might be getting uncomfortably close to the truth. With anti-British sentiment on the rise, a charismatic religious leader growing in influence, and the fight for women's suffrage gaining steam, Bangalore is turning out to be a far more dangerous and treacherous place than Kaveri ever imagined-and everyone's motives are suspect. When new bride Kaveri Murthy reluctantly agrees to investigate a minor crime to please her domineering mother-in-law-during the blood moon eclipse, no less-she doesn't expect, once again, to stumble upon a murder. The latest novel in the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murthy uncovering a new murder during the blood moon eclipse. Murder Under a Red Moon A 1920s Bangalore Mystery Harini Nagendra
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