Dear potential readers! Sad to say, my valiant attempts to enclose a couple of videos describing this my latest Leela/Meena murder mystery failed rather spectacularly! So here are some words that touch upon the themes that drive my story!

Transgressive?

Who defines the boundaries of morality?

Transgressive?

Who defines the boundaries of morality?

Who sets rules of behavior?

“Being oppressed means the absence of choices”

(bell hooks)

Indomitable sleuths

A story about bodies, voices, and stories brutally destroyed,

and yet never giving up the fight to claim their rightful place in society

Introducing my latest Leela/Meena murder mystery set in the South Indian city of Chennai, and fraught with murder and mayhem! The book is available on Amazon.in

The following videos give you a frightening glimpse of how the most vulnerable in our society have very little recourse to safety from violence.

You, my reader, might question the value of the limerick that heralds each chapter in “Lalli unveils a window.” However, each limerick provides an appetizer for what is to come! Here are a couple of examples:

1. There once was a gal who did swear
2. She’d created a limb beyond compare
3. If you pinched it, you’d hear
4. An ‘OUCH’ oh so clear
5. This limb that our Lalli did wear!

1. There once was a boy who thought
2. His parents and siblings were naught.
3. He looked for a spark
4. In places so dark
5. That he cried out: “This isn’t what I sought!”

1. When SWAT teams on television’s screen
2. Do bulldoze their way to the scene
3. We clap and we cheer
4. To what does appear
5. to be fatal for these guys so mean

1. But Lalli and friends bore witness
2. to real life police under duress,
3. How they vanquished so quick
4. With a charge oh so slick!
5. Now the bad guys are stuck in their mess!

Happy reading!

Launch date coming up very soon! My female sleuths Leela and Meena face the biggest challenge of their lives in trying to solve the murders of members of the LGBTQ+ community in Chennai.