Bombay ice
Subtitle: a novel
By: Leslie Forbes.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Motion picture producers and directors -- Fiction; Women journalists -- Fiction; British -- India -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction; Bombay (India) -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Description: Rosalind Bengal is a radio journalist and producer for true-crime TV. After years in London, she still wakes with the cinnamon taste of cassia leaves in her mouth, a dream from her childhood in India when her father taught her about meteorology and her mother about alchemy. Then a letter comes from her sister, now married to a famous Bombay film director: "People tell me he murdered his first wife." Despite her fear of being drawn back into the murky patterns of her family past, Roz returns to India.

In Bombay, where the monsoon season is imminent, the two sisters' lives are threatened by the repercussions from a brutal murder of a transvestite with links to "Bollywood." Roz soon realizes that her best defense weapon is not a gun but her knowledge of chemistry and Shakespeare, of storm warnings and gene patterns.