Six Suspects
  • Published: 26 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784163792
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $47.99
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Six Suspects

Streaming on Disney Hotstar as THE GREAT INDIAN MURDER

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An Indian Agatha Christie...a page turning murder mystery in the bestselling tradition of Alexander McCall Smith, by the author of the bestselling SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.

Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession. each of them steaming with a secret motive.

India's wiliest investigative journalist, Arun Advani, makes it his mission to nail the murderer. In doing so, the amazing, tender and touching, techni-colour lives of six eccentric personalities unravel before our eyes. But can we trust Advani? Or does he have another agenda in mind...?
  • Published: 26 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784163792
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $47.99
Categories:

About the author

Vikas Swarup

Vikas Swarup is a member of the Indian Foreign Service. Q&A was his first novel. An international bestseller, it has been translated into over forty languages, and was made into the multiple Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.

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Praise for Six Suspects

A teeming, beguiling Indian panorama wrapped in a clever whodunit.

Kirkus Reviews

A blockbuster of a story that begins with a murder, then delves into the lives and motives of the six suspects. The reader becomes intimately involved with each suspect while being treated to an eye-opening account of life in India (4 1/2 stars)

Romantic Times Book Reviews US

Gleeful, sneaky fun

Janet Maslin, New York Times

Fascinating, multi-voiced slice of Indian life across the castes with political corruption at its centre...a lovely, lovely book

Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller

A Bollywood version of the board game Clue with a strain of screwball comedy thrown in. Its stock characters are easily identified: the Bureaucrat, the Actress, the Tribal, the Thief, the Politician and the American. Each attended the party at which a man named Vicky Rai, a playboy film producer, was murdered. Each has a gun and a motive. And although the story's geographical span is even bigger than India, the whole thing feels handily confined to the kind of isolated, air-tight setting that Agatha Christie's readers love.Thanks to such a schematic setup "Six Suspects" is gleeful, sneaky fun. But it's also a much more freewheeling book than the format implies. Mr. Swarup, an Indian diplomat, brings a worldly range of attributes to his potentially simple story. And he winds up delivering a rambling critique of Indian culture, taking shots at everything from racism to reality TV. Yet Mr. Swarup's style stays light and playful, preferring to err on the side of broad high jinks rather than high seriousness...A refreshing oddity. It bears no resemblance to the cookie-cutter genre books of this season

Janet Maslin, New York Times

I do not normally recommend crime novels more than 500 pages long, but I am making an exception with Vikas Swarup It's unusual, witty, quirkily, cleverly plotted, intelligent, and along the way it's an informative satire on Indian politics and values...a rollicking good read

Marcel Berlins, Times

Neat, clever and loads and loads of fun

Daily Sport

A page-turner of a mystery

Waterstones' Quarterly

Much to enjoy..the solution in the final pages is particularly cunning

Telegraph

Swarup has a redeeming eye for the disparites that define Indian society

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