A Cut-Like Wound

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The second book of the Inspector Gowda series

ISBN: 978-1908524362
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Police Procedural

What you need to know before your trail

It is the first night of Ramadan. At Shivaji Nagar in the heart of Bangalore, a young male prostitute is killed and burnt alive. It would have stayed as yet another unsolved murder, but for Inspector Borei Gowda, the investigating officer. As bodies begin to pile up one after the other, and it becomes clear that a serial killer is on the prowl, Gowda recognizes a pattern in the killings which no one else does. Even as he negotiates serious mid-life blues, problems with his wife and son, an affair with an ex-girlfriend, and official apathy and ridicule, the killer moves in for the next victim…

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Bangalore

The book opens with the murder of a male sex worker in Shivajinagar.

This is the area of the city where the reader gets to enter the dubious and dark world of Indian transgenders. This in a society which shuns, fears and despises them so although they are in plain sight, they have to hide from the real world.

Inspector Borei Gowda grew up in Jayanagar 5th block

Much of the book revolves around Hennur, where the author lives. The streets and sounds of the city come alive:

Shivaji Nagar

“It was late in the night but the Shivaji Nagar bus stand area was simmering with activity. On Saturday nights, the streets were more alive than there were during the weekdays.And this was the fist night of Ramzan. A certain excitement resonated through the alleys and lanes.”

“The vendors had their carts edged along the roads, which buzzed with life. the smell of meat cooking on charcoal mingle with the aromas of samosas being friend in giant vats of hissing oil. Chopped onions and coriander leaves, pakodas and jalebis, strings of marigold and jasmine buds,rotting garbage and cow dug.”

And the line that says it all:

“A composite cloud of a thousand fragrances and desires in that shadowed underbelly of the city.”