Six Suspects: A Novel – Vikas Swarup

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Doubleday, Large-format Paperback – Crime Classics – 470pp. ISBN 9780385608169. Sticker-damage.

Audaciously and astutely plotted, with a panoramic imaginative sweep, Six Suspects is the work of a master storyteller. Both a page turner and a richly textured tale of human frailties and emotions, Vikas Swarup’s eagerly awaited second offering is astutely plotted, with a panoramic, imaginative sweep.

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…?