English India Mystery

When new bride Kaveri Murthy reluctantly agrees to investigate a minor crime during the blood moon eclipse to please her domineering mother-in-law, she doesn't expect to stumble upon a murder - again. With anti-British sentiments on the rise, a charismatic religious leader growing in influence, and the fight for women's suffrage gaining steam, Bangalore is turning out to be a far more dangerous place than Kaveri ever imagined, and everyone's motives are suspect.

Penrose and Pyke’s wedding dream turns to ashes when the local women’s refuge goes up in flames. Grace Penrose is used to protesters at Lavender House, but she never expected them to set the refuge on fire, especially not on her wedding day. And her mother’s carefully orchestrated wedding plan definitely did not include Charlie Pyke disappearing into an inferno. The discovery of a woman’s body in the smouldering ruins rouses Grace and Charlie’s detective instincts. With marital bliss on their minds, an investigation is the last thing they need. But how can they ignore a murder, ...

Isabel, born into the British Raj, and Asha, a young Hindu girl, both consider India their home. Through mischance and accident their stories intersect, and circumstances will bring them from the bustling city of Delhi to the shores of the Andaman Islands, from glittering colonial parties to the squalor and desperation of a notorious prison, and into the lives of men on opposing sides of the fight for self-rule. As the shadow of the Second World War falls across India, Isabel, caught up in growing political violence, has to make impossible choices.

From a veteran insider with over 20 years’ experience in the US Foreign Service comes a taut, insightful thriller of global intrigue and behind-the-scenes international politics. Sam Trainor’s career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being outspoken has left him on the outside of the competitive Washington establishment. Formerly the top South Asia expert in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Trainor has moved to the private sector, working as an analyst for the consulting firm Argus Systems.

He’s ready to deal the killing blow. But can he save the one person who matters? Lazarus “Oz” King rose from the dead with one thing in mind: to finally put a bullet in the head of his monstrous father. Consumed by his burning obsession and poised to deliver the final blow, he won’t let anybody distract him from his mission – not even the sexy battlefield doctor who saved them so many times. Sasha Landry is the one woman who could derail Oz’s plans. Smart, seductive, and irresistibly attracted to the infuriating and domineering eldest brother, she quickly finds her well-deserved...

A princely state in India, 1930, under the British Raj. To Bhopore and its opulent Summer Palace comes a handful of Western visitors to meet the outrageous Maharajah and his entourage. There they meet the Maharajah's heir, the sensual Porgy, and his English chorus-girl mistress. They meet the enigmatic chief minister, and the aloof British Resident, with his dignified little nine-year-old son. And before long they also meet sudden death.

Little does Ashwin Jamwal know that the last 25 years of his life have been controlled by a master manipulator who wanted to make him the most powerful man on earth, though for a reason! Ashwin steps up to take oath as the youngest prime minister of India and is unknowingly thrown into a vortex of power and authority as the entire world is threatened by a faceless enemy - Hades.

Ever since the Russians unraveled this biggest mystery, more and more people have come up with supporting evidences. At the same time, a band of bigwigs have gone out of the way to dismiss this as a hoax. What is the truth? Was he or was he not? Interesting listen to get to know of Jesus better.

He’s a bastard bathed in sin. She’s an angelic nun. Are they secretly the match made in Heaven? Hot on the trail of his evil father, Liam Harker is a no-nonsense Chicago cop willing to take the law into his own hands. But when he’s faced with the impossible task of investigating Finch’s finances, he’ll need to call in a favor and enlist the help of an unlikely ally. Catriona is a novice nun with a heart of gold and a talent for numbers. From the moment she meets Liam, he makes her heart flutter – but she took a vow, and no dashing cop is about to make her give up her Holy path. ...

Sampat Pal was married at twelve, essentially illiterate. Today she leads a vigilante group fighting for women's rights: the Pink Gang. When Sheelu was arrested for stealing from a powerful politician in the notoriously crooked region of Uttar Pradesh, she was sure that she would be forced to accept a prison sentence, not least because she had alleged that she had been assaulted by a man in the politician's household.

There are places where the past lingers, making shapes in the moonlight and blowing in the curtains even as the air goes suddenly still. K. Hari Kumar, best-selling author of spine-chilling horror fiction, brings you the terrifying tales of some of India's most haunted places - including Bhangarh Fort, Malabar Hill's Tower of Silence and Jammu and Kashmir's notorious Khooni Nala. Whether you listen to them at night or in daylight, these stories will remain with you long after you've heard the last minute.

Explore mysterious islands in the Arabian Sea populated with giant Greek gods until an aerial war between flying cities sank them. Was this related to missing biblical passages of flying towers, or the blue-eyed giants with red and flaxen hair? Delve into provocative theories on the decline of humanity, the Antichrist, the rapture of humans to an off-world location for safety, the arrival of New Jerusalem in the sky, the nature of our “new bodies” and “new heaven” and “new Earth”, and human life after the End of Days. What comes next?

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking.

Some months back Biff’s father went to India to legally open up some gold mines that had been absorbed by the India Republic. The setting for same was in exotic and mystical segments of India, with much action to be in and around the vicinity of the Himalayas. At first it was more of a sight-seeing tour than adventure with Biff accompanied by two friends from earlier times … Kamuka, met at the headwaters of the Amazon River in Brazil, and Likake (“Lee”) Mahenili of Hawaii. They headed out by sea and still had one more night to spend on shipboard as they reached Calcutta.

Annika Bengtzon is left to pick up the pieces after a shocking and complex murder case turns her world upside down and leaves her personal life in shambles. Meanwhile, an intruder brutally murders an entire family on Spain's Costa del Sol, and Annika must fly to the glitzy locale to report on the case. Upon arrival she discovers that a fifth family member is unaccounted for. Soon, the killers are found, but they, too, have met their demise - in the same grisly manner they killed the Söderström family.

The story involves a huge diamond, the moonstone, originally stolen from an Indian shrine. The gem is given to an English girl on her 18th birthday but disappears that same night. What follows is a spellbinding mystery that to this day has the power to draw the listener into its world of danger, suspense, and surprise.

It is Inspector Ghote's bad luck to be landed with the case of the perfect murder at the start of his career with the Bombay Police, for in this most baffling of crimes there is the cunning and important tycoon Lala Varde to contend with. And as if this were not enough, he finds himself having to investigate the mysterious theft of one rupee from the desk of yet another very important person, the minister of Police Affairs and the Arts.

In the middle of the space race between China and India, a spy gets hold of the Chang'e mission lunar module plans to sell them to the highest bidder, but the spy is intercepted in Burma. About to unleash a war between the two great nuclear powers of Asia, a European diplomat will accidentally come across a network to recover the plans at all costs and try to avoid the start of a third world war.

You can’t turn on the news nowadays without getting bombarded by stories about the Rebels. They look so scary on TV - blowing things up, knocking things down, terrorizing the declining city of Corona, and making sure even the rubble doesn’t go unscathed. My father is the reigning Arcane Master of Fire. Since he’s a prominent figure in both politics and magic, it only makes sense that my family is a target. Still, I never expected to encounter a Rebel leader in person. I never imagined I’d be drawn to him, either.

In the midst of a brutal Scandinavian winter, a member of the Nobel Prize committee is gunned down in the city of Stockholm. Reporter Annika Bengtzon, who made eye contact with the killer just seconds before the shots were fired, is the key witness. Because of the sensitivity of the crime, police issue a gag order on her immediately - and she is forced to figure out on her own why an American assassin known only as "the Kitten" ordered the hit. With her marriage falling to pieces and her job on the line, Annika quickly finds herself in the middle of a violent story of terror and death, the roots of which date back centuries.