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 Muslim 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 just a single working revolver between them, can he bring justice to a grieving father 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 literary thriller of considerable acumen with a textured picture of a country' - Financial Times, Best New Crime Books

'A new writer to shout about... Roy brings rural India and Delhi to life as much as she does her characters... Riveting' - Observer

'A novel that is on the one hand a wholly satisfying murder mystery, but which also employs the village of Teetarpur as a kind of India-in-microcosm... A powerful, immersive and unsentimental novel of modern India, Black River establishes Nilanjana Roy as a crime novelist with which to be reckoned' - Irish Times

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.