Black River

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It takes a village to kill a child...The village of Teetarpur outside Delhi, is famous for nothing until one of its children is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu village, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslin man, Mansoor. It's up to the local policeman Sub-Inspector Ombir Singh to get to the truth. With only one officer under him, and only a single working revolver between them, can he bring justice to a grieving father an an angry village - or will Teetarpur demand vengeance instead This shockingly powerful literary thriller is set in a brilliantly realised modern India simmering with tension and riven by growing religious intolerance.

Reviews

'A riveting murder mystery. A psychological thriller. A magnificent work of literary fiction' - Kiran Desai

'An elegy for India. Gorgeously written, utterly devastating, and feels completely true' - Sonia Faleiro, author of 'The Girl'

'A thrilling and riveting crime noir, written tenderly and elegantly' - The Hindu

'This emotionally engaging novel, less a "whodunit" than a "whydunit" is remarkable for the interiority of its characters... The compulsive pull lies in the slow burn of a leisurely paced plot' - Frontline

'The soul of a river, poured into a saga of fatherhood and crime... The thrillerish pace is tight [but] the prose is immersive enough for one to want to savour' - The Deccan Chronicle

Author Bio

Nilanjana Roy is a Delhi-based journalist, literary critic, editor and author. She has written and reviewed for numerous publications including the Guardian, New York Times and Huffington Post, and has a weekly column in the Financial Times, and her novel The Wildings was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Black River is Nilanjana's debut thriller. It grew out of her years of reporting on gender from New Delhi and the surrounding states for the New York Times, and from exploring the capital and the Yamuna river on long walks.