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Piggies On the Railway – A Kasthuri Kumar Mystery
When tall, suave, handsome Kaustav Kapoor walks into her office, ditzy private investigator Kasthuri (aka Katie) Kumar has anything but detection on her mind. He is, after all, a scion of Bollywood’s first family—perhaps he has a role for her? Perhaps she will, at last, get to sashay down the red carpet in a designer gown, with flash bulbs following her every move?
But Kapoor’s intentions are much more prosaic: he wishes Katie to trace the heroine of his new blockbuster (and, if Katie’s read the glossies correctly, his life) who is mysteriously AWOL. Despite her misgivings, Katie finds herself unable to refuse the task entrusted to her, and thereon follows a bewildering hunt for the film star across a trail of corpses.
And if that isn’t excitement enough, she has to contend with the maddening and mysterious, but, oh-so-hot, Tejas Deshpande.
The first in a brand new detective series.
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wow!!! Congrats 🙂 so how does it feel with the 2nd book out??
BTW wud the book be availble on Flipkart? Right now it isn’t!
@Smita, yeah, even I don’t know how this works. Even I wouldn’t have known that it’s available had I not been alerted by another reader. will find out and let you know 🙂
congratulations! i will pick up a copy soon.
Good luck .. i am looking forward to reading u r book … loved the fist one !!
All the best…I hope you break the jinx Indian writers have suffered in crime.
@Rohit, thanks :-). Is there a curse? I did know there aren’t too many of us around, but I wasn’t aware about a curse.
Hi, I am your namesake and I bought KK to see my name on the book – although unreal.
Just ordered piggies online for the same reason.
Friends, you can buy it here http://bit.ly/dsyCrh
Well, maybe curse or jinx is too strong a word.
What I meant was the Indians writing in English hasn’t really found the success it should get in crime fiction. Try this: Google ‘Indian Writing in English Crime’. I am delighted to tell you that your blog post is the first search result and there aren’t many more. I doubt we have a recurring PI character based series. So you could well be carving a niche for yourself in this genre! 🙂
I am not exactly an Harold Bloom to comment on affairs pertaining to literature, but I believe there are a few major themes in Indian writing in English:
1. Portray the exotic elements of India which will appeal to a worldwide audience. Not everyone can do it the way Arundhati Roy has done it, but there are many books like that.
2. Portray the traditions of India, a sort of introspection and meditation on what it is all about. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni does it very well.
3. Magic Realism. Salman Rushdiesque. A true master. Others? Not sure
4. The immigrant angst and clash of cultures. Jhumpa Lahiri is a phenom, but there are countless wannabes there.
5. There is an emerging trend of young writers writing about urban Indians. I believe it’s refreshing and wonderful. If you visit a local crossword, I think the shelves are becoming stocked with these books. More power to them! Someone like Chetan Bhagat has shown us that an Indian can deliver million copy sales. These books are being read by people who never bothered to visit ‘Indian Literature’ shelves before.
Maybe I am falling into the trap of pigeon-holing something as profound as literature here. But if I view it from the stark commercial angle, I may not be too far off the mark.
I am sure the success of your book will add an important milestone to the mainstream, commercial fiction of India. So wish you all the very best. I am in the UK and will figure out how to get your book here soon 🙂
PS: There actually are Literary Agents in India. I am sure ten years back they weren’t. Bob Dylan, thou were right – Times they are a changin’
Cheers!!
Haven’t read your books yet , but i’m sure i’m going to lay my hands on it very soon 🙂
P.S : May be it’s my imagination but u do have some resemblance to kathryn Bigelow 🙂
@Smita Jain, maybe you should change your name to JK Rowling. You’ll have more to look at on your bookshelf 🙂
@Rohit, thank you for your thoughtful comment. yes, it does seem that when publsihers stopped looking for the Great Indian novel, and started publishing urban Indian stories, the publishing scene exploded. About the success of my book, lets not get ahead of ourselves, although I have my fingers and toes crossed 🙂
@Anjan, thanks, I think 🙂
Just bought your book today, what an amazing title. I couldn’t resist googling you came across your blog.
Piggies seems to be a fun read (just read a few pages yet).
Pity I hadn’t come across your blog earlier, or as you put it, I could have saved muchos rupees.
Hoping for a sequel…
@R2B2, thanks you so much. I hope your invetsment was worth every rupee 🙂
Started reading 🙂 but got my copy snatched by Mom and she is loving it!!!
Now I have to wait for my turn 😦
Till later!
Sookie
@Sookie, Ah, Sookie, aren’t you the kind of reader us authors dream about 🙂 Thanks!
Finally the book is in my possession!! Will finish the book am reading currently and pick this up 🙂
@Smita 🙂 I hope you enjoy it.