Showing results by author "Shashi Tharoor" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Reinventing yourself is harder when you don’t remember who you were.  

Who killed 24-year-old Priscilla Hart? And why would anyone want to murder this idealistic American student who had come to India to volunteer in a women’s health programme? Was she the innocent victim of a riot between Hindus and Muslims? Shashi Tharoor experiments brilliantly with narrative form, chronicling the mystery through the often contradictory accounts of a dozen or more characters. Intellectually provocative and emotionally charged, Riot is a novel about the ownership of history, about love, hate, cultural commission, and religious fanaticism....