Bhaskar has planned a family reunion of sorts, bringing together his family following the settlement of a lengthy legal dispute over the family's property. This plan has been successful in warding off further attacks. If he dies of natural causes his assets are distributed one way, but if he dies "unnaturally" there is a different distribution which is kept secret from the beneficiaries. Since that attack, Bhasker wants to protect himself by writing two wills, each of which will distribute his estate differently depending upon the manner of his death.
Bhasker shot his attacker, who escaped with only a gunshot wound. One was an unsuccessful break-in at the manor when an intruder attacked Bhasker with a dagger. There has been several mysterious accidents and events aimed at him. This is a traditional country house whodunit mystery set in contemporary India, narrated by Indian detective Harith Athreya, He is invited to Greybrooke Manor in the Nilgiris outside Chennai (formerly Madras) by a wealthy retired antiques dealer, Bhaskar Fernandez, who fears someone is plotting to kill him. It set my teeth on edge! There had to be a more dynamic way to write this dialogue.or maybe take more time with the setting or mystery instead of having the characters talk and talk and talk.I was really excited to read this book because I was hoping to find a new detective to love in a setting that I'd love to learn more about but unfortunately this one didn't deliver. Every single time a certain character delivered any lines it was so-and-so "growled" or in a "growling voice" so-and-so said blah blah blah. Now my last gripe may have less to do with the author than with the translating/editing. (Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are leagues away from this dude.) The author does not lay out the features of the case in any way to make it exciting and I really could have cared less about the characters or the murderer in their midst. But there's no backstory on this guy and nothing that occurs within the story led me to believe that he was anything extraordinary.
This is the first in a series and yet it reads as if we are supposed to know all about this sleuth (Harith Athreya) and implicitly trust him because of all his many detective-y accomplishments.
I can confirm that it was set in India and there was a knife.but Agatha Christie this is not. This book was billed as an 'Agatha Christie style mystery set in India for fans of Knives Out'.
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