num_pages: 352
description: A New York Times Notable Book of the YearMalice Domestic Agatha Award Nominee for Best First NovelThe first in a charming joyful cozy crime series set in 1920s Bangalore featuring sari-wearing detective Kaveri and her husband Ramu. Perfect for fans of Alexander McCall Smiths The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.When clever headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry handsome young doctor Ramu she's resigned herself to a quiet life. But that all changes the night of the party at the Century Club where she escapes to the garden for some peace and quietand instead spots an uninvited guest in the shadows. Half an hour later the party turns into a murder scene. When a vulnerable woman is connected to the crime Kaveri becomes determined to save her and launches a private investigation to find the killer tracing his steps from an illustrious brothel to an Englishman's mansion. She soon finds that sleuthing in a sari isn't as hard as it seems when you have a talent for mathematics a head for logic and a doctor for a husband . . . And she's going to need them all as the case leads her deeper into a hotbed of danger sedition and intrigue in Bangalore's darkest alleyways.
language: English
title: The Bangalore Detectives Club
publisher: Pegasus Crime