4 pacy books about Mumbai to keep you busy through the monsoon

SaminaBy Troy RibeiroJournalist Troy Ribeirorsquos debut novel Samina Notion Press was published in the midst of the pandemic last year The novel begins with Abdul Rehman arriving in Mumbai from Kolkata to search for his missing daughterrsquos killerSamina pursuing a Masters in one of the reputed colleges of South Mumbai had written to him saying that should anything happen to her he must hold Irfan Patel a tourist guide responsible Armed with this letter Rehman lands up in Mumbai identifies Patel and accuses him of the murder Itrsquos now upon the Mumbai Police to find Samina dead or alive Will they Read to find outFor Rs 250Itrsquos Also About MynahBy Rucha ChitrodiaThis tender comingofage story is about young Mynah who moves to Mumbai to join an ad agency much against the wishes of her paranoid father Here she is reluctantly catapulted into adulthood confronted with bitter truthsmdasha ghosting boyfriend struggles at her workplace a meeting with her runaway birth motherAs a paying guest in a flat in the cityrsquos old mill district of Lalbaug a locality that has its own story to tell she has numerous experiences Journalist Rucha Chitrodiarsquos Itrsquos Also About Mynah Amaryllis is about heartbreak healing and everything else that makes us humanFor Rs 299Also ReadMaharashtra teacher uses script and song to eliminate vax hesitancy in villagesBombay 3By Jitendra DixitSET in one of the most feared localities of Bombay where the zip code is 400003 Jitendra Dixitrsquos debut novel Bombay 3 Bloomsbury India revolves around a Hindu boy and his two Muslim friends Their neighbourhood marred by communal riots and terrorism puts a strain on their relationship as wellThey choose different paths in life but circumstances connect the trio for a common goal Beginning in the bylanes of Bombay of the 1970s Dixitrsquos fastpaced thriller takes the reader to Mosul in ISISrsquos Iraq of 2014 and finally to the streets of Bangkok where the underworld has spread its tentaclesFor Rs 499Murder at Daisy ApartmentsBy Shabnam MinwallaAfter penning Colaba The Diamond At The Tip Of Mumbai which was a compelling portrait of the South Mumbai address writer Shabnam Minwalla has once again sought inspiration in the neighbourhood for her new young adult thriller The plot of Murder at Daisy Apartments Speaking Tiger begins on Day 46 of the lockdown in May 2020 when Baman Marker the chairperson of an apartment building is found poisoned in his homeSince the twin apartments are sealed the murderer is likely to have been one of the residents Fifteenyearold Nandini Venkat a devourer of murder mysteries had spotted a pair of legs on the stairs the day Marker had been killed And so curious as she is she begins her investigation with her twin Ved and best friend Shanaya We think itrsquos just the perfect whodunit to keep your child hooked this mosoon For Rs 399