![]() “Spreadsheets, spreadsheets and more spreadsheets,” is how the author describes the process of writing this plot-heavy novel in a Zoom call from Singapore, which he has called home for several months now. ![]() His previous book, The Girl In Room 105 (2018), was also a murder mystery of sorts, but this time, Bhagat set himself the task of writing a locked-room mystery, one of the absolute classic formats of a genre that authors the world over have done remarkable things with.Īs murder mysteries stand, Bhagat has delivered on the promise of creating a very satisfying locked room murder, where the reader-even a sophisticated reader who has devoured everything from Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers to Ian Rankin and Tana French-might be left guessing the identity of the killer. ![]() "Gurugram man pushes wife to death on Karva Chauth"-having once dipped toes into the world of crime writing, no self-respecting author even mildly interested in writing crime fiction could ignore the opportunity presented by that lurid headline, and Bhagat is after all a prolific one. It was a newspaper headline-one of those bizarre, somewhat sordid, it-can-happen-only-in-India headlines-that led to Chetan Bhagat’s latest novel, One Arranged Murder. ![]()
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