It takes a village to kill a child...
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 just a single working revolver between them, can he bring justice to a grieving father 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.
'A riveting murder mystery. A psychological thriller. A magnificent work of literary fiction'
- Kiran Desai
'An elegy for India. Gorgeously written, utterly devastating, and feels completely true'
- Sonia Faleiro, author of The Girl
'A literary thriller of considerable acumen with a textured picture of a country'
- Financial Times, Best New Crime Books
'A new writer to shout about... Roy brings rural India and Delhi to life as much as she does her characters... Riveting'
- Observer
'A novel that is on the one hand a wholly satisfying murder mystery, but which also employs the village of Teetarpur as a kind of India-in-microcosm... A powerful, immersive and unsentimental novel of modern India, Black River establishes Nilanjana Roy as a crime novelist with which to be reckoned'
- Irish Times
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