In this kickoff to a new series, Raman brilliantly evokes Agatha Christie's classic country estate mysteries for modern-day India.

delivers a full-blast Christie mystery set in India but full of classic Christie tropes. Channeling Agatha Christie isn't a bad way for a writer to spend his time, not if he does it well.The ghost-ridden misty landscape of the Nilgiris is an ideal setting for a cosy winter afternoon read. Raman weaves in a believable and well-thought-out plot that stays faithful to the mood of a country house murder.

A deftly executed country house mystery.A WILL TO KILL is a slice of sheer pleasure.Fans of Ngaio Marsh's A MAN LAY DEAD and Patricia Moyes's DEAD MEN DON'T SKI will also enjoy.' -Library Journal 'Reminiscent of Agatha Christie mysteries, this first in the Harith Athreya series is a sure hit for readers who love a taste of foreign intrigue and a solid whodunit.A modern-day take on the classic locked-room murder mystery, transported to a remote mansion high in the hills of southern India.'Arthreya is a fine detective with a curious mind.' -Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice).A WILL TO KILL is the first Harith Athreya mystery.

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. Into this tinderbox, he brings Harith Athreya, a seasoned investigator. 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. Aging 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 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. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CRIME FICTION OF 2020 BY OPEN, THE MAGAZINE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST RECENT THRILLERS-The Guardian Book Synopsis NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BOOKS WE RECOMMEND THIS WEEK-The New York Times

A Will To Kill by R.V. Raman