Black River

Black River

Nilanjana Roy

#3885 of 8,085 books · #1123 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year) (2024).

The village of Teetarpur outside Delhi is famous for nothing until one of its children is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu village, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslim man, Mansoor. It's up to the local policeman Sub-Inspector Ombir Singh to get to the truth. With only one officer under him, and only a single working revolver between them, can he bring justice to a grieving father and an angry village - or will Teetarpur demand vengeance instead? This shockingly powerful literary thriller is set in a brilliantly realised modern India simmering with tension and riven by growing religious intolerance.