Into this tinderbox, he brings Harith Athreya, a seasoned investigator. Which one of them comes into force will depend on how he dies. He knows that his guests expect to gain by his death, and to safeguard himself against violence, he writes two conflicting wills. So, he invites them to his remote Greybrooke Manor in the misty Nilgiris – a mansion that has played host to several sudden deaths a colonial edifice that stands alone in a valley that is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Englishman.īut Bhaskar has other, more practical problems to deal with. A WILL TO KILL is the first Harith Athreya mystery.Major Characters: Bhaskar Fernandez, Harith Athreya Book Summary: A Will To KillĪn ageing and wheelchair-bound Bhaskar Fernandez has finally reclaimed his family property after a bitter legal battle, and now wants to reunite his aggrieved relatives. When a landslide occurs, temporarily isolating them all at the mansion, and resulting in a murder, Athreya finds that murder is not the only thing the mist conceals. Which one of them comes into force depends on how he dies.
He knows that his family is waiting for him to die to regain the family fortune, and to safeguard himself against violence during the house party, he writes two conflicting wills. But Bhaskar has other, more practical problems to deal with. So, he invites them to remote Greybrooke Manor in the misty Nilgiris -a mansion that has played host to several sudden deaths a colonial edifice that stands alone in a valley that is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Englishman. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CRIME NOVELS OF NOVEMBER BY THE TIMES UKįor fans of Knives Out, a book that embodies all the things we love about Agatha Christie-a haunted manor house, estranged relatives a will, and a murder- set in modern-day India, and the first in a series from author RV Raman.Īging and wheelchair-bound patriarch Bhaskar Fernandez has finally reclaimed his family property after a bitter legal battle, and now wants to reunite his aggrieved relatives. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CRIME FICTION OF 2020 BY OPEN, THE MAGAZINE NAMED ONE OF THE "BEST RECENT THRILLERS"-The Guardian
NAMED ONE OF THE "TEN BOOKS WE RECOMMEND THIS WEEK"-The New York Times
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