Greenlight

Kalpana Swaminathan is one of the most well-known crime fiction writers in India. Her writing is intelligent, fast-paced and contemporary.Kalpana Swaminathan's earlier crime fiction enjoys a fair amount of international acclaim and several of her books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese.The author critiques gender and current events in a manner that is unique for crime fiction.The previous books in the Lalli detective series by Kalpana Swaminathan are The Page 3 Murders, Monochrome Madonna, The Secret Gardener and I Never Knew it Was You. Kalpana has also written Ambrosia for Afters [2003] and Bougainvillea House [2005]. Her book of short stories, Venus Crossing, won the Crossword Fiction Award for 2009. She shares the nom de plume Kalpish Ratna with Ishrat Syed. They're both surgeons who've written five books together: The Quarantine Papers and The Nalanda Chronicles, Nyagrodha, the first book of the Panchatantra reimagined for our time and Once Upon a Hill, the story of the dying and lost hills of Bombay. In 2015 they published Room 000: Narratives of the Bombay Plague, which tells the forgotten story of 1896.Pinki was the first to go. It was past six when her mother noticed Pinki was missing. They were still looking for Pinki three days later, when Jamila went missing. They were looking for Jamila two days later, when Pinki's parents found a parcel on their threshold. It was a parcel, done in newspaper, trussed with string. A parcel, as big as a large pillow. Or, a small child. By that time, Mary was missing. The missing children of Kandewadi become a cause célèbre as febrile activism and media hype keep the violence resonating. When Lalli ignores the smokescreen and sets out to reveal the truth, she encounters the unimaginable.Greenlight is a chilling crime thriller that explores the interface between the real and the virtual and forces the reader to confront the moment.