Murder in Seven Acts: Lalli Mysteries

Lalli, retired policewoman, intrepid detective, collects curiosities… that inevitably lead to murder.

The curiosity of murder unfolds in seven acts.

Since Kalpana Swaminathan’s first whodunit was published over ten years ago, Lalli—sixty and silver-haired and tough as nails—has been one of the most memorable detectives in Indian fiction. Lalli returns in this brilliant page-turner, a collection of seven stories, to solve some of the strangest, most complex cases of her career.

The opening act,...