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082			_aFiction GIL-P
100			_aGill, Preeti
245			_aShe stoops to kill : _bstories of crime and passion edited by _cPreeti Gill
260			_aIndia _bSpeaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd _c2019
300			_a256 p.
365			_aINR _b350.00.
500			_aBulbul Sharma, Janice Pariat, Manjula Padmanabhan, Mitra Phukan, Paro Anand, Pratyaksha, Uddipana Goswami, Venita Coelho. Eight of India’s best fiction writers come together to produce a book of intrigue and murders most foul. In Mitra Phukan’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—but who would want her dead? And Pratyaksha follows Mitra’s entrée with the murder of an equally glamorous victim—air hostess Ginny Kalra. Bulbul Sharma, in ‘Murder in the Wedding Season’, 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’s ‘Beloved of Flowers’, a folktale about a girl reborn as a lotus leads young Dino to the truth behind a mysterious disappearance. Manjula Padmanabhan’s ‘Serial Killer’ brilliantly explores what it is like to be a perfectly normal person—except that you enjoy the act of murder. While Janice Pariat’s delicately nuanced ‘The Nurse’ 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—or two—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’ cauldron of stories that will keep you riveted, page after page.
650			_aFiction
650			_aCrime Fiction
650			_aThriller Fiction
700			_aAnand, Paro
700			_aCoelho, Venita
700			_aGoswani, Uddipana
700			_aPadmanabhan, Manjula
700			_aPariat, Janice
700			_aPhukan, Mitra
700			_aPratyasha
700			_aSharma, Bulbul