Black River

'A riveting murder mystery. A psychological thriller. A magnificent work of literary fiction' KIRAN DESAI'An elegy for India. It is gorgeously written, utterly devastating, and feels completely true' SONIA FALEIROA literary thriller of considerable acumen with a textured picture of a country' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST NEW CRIME BOOKS [RB1] ________________IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO KILL A CHILD...The Indian village of Teetarpur is a quiet, unremarkable place, until one of its children is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree.In the largely Hindu community, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslim man, Mansoor.It's up to local policeman Sub-Inspector Ombir Singh to uncover the truth. With only one assistant officer, and a single working revolver between them, can he bring justice to a grieving father and an angry village?or will the people of Teetarpur demand vengeance instead?

Product details

• Authors: Nilanjana Roy, Roy Nilanjana
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781782279433
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-943-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, India, Rural communities, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Crime and mystery: police procedural