A racy thriller about a banker who is found in a pool of blood in his house one fine day. Why would anyone kill him? He had a straight record, a helpful man with no apparent enemies. His wife and Inspector Dayal begin their own investigation and converge at a point to discover the real motive behind the murder.
Shanker and Shyamala are two police officers, based out of Delhi, who are investigating the attempted murder of Ramesh Pratap, a Business Magnate. In the course of this investigation, they stumble upon multiple other murders, threats for extortion and many more illegal activities that lead to a much larger corruption model which includes the participation of the state machinery. The main characters fall in and out of love with people on the other side of this case, at times even honey trapped. This further complicates the investigation as well as their personal lives.
This book covers the sensitive real-life story of Gulzari and Parvati, their marriage in Lahore in 1942, the eruption of violence and carnage, their flight to New Delhi just a month before the partition and their aristocratic lifestyle that slowly crumbled (so did their love for each other). An interesting account of a man who struggles to keep up with his swanky lifestyle he once enjoyed as one of the richest landed families of Lahore, who never knew what it meant to work for a living! Slowly he watches everything crumble before him...including his relationships and his financial standing.