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Roopa Unnikrishnan is an award-winning author, Rhodes Scholar, Arjuna Award recipient, and Commonwealth Games gold medalist in rifle shooting. After years spent guiding global companies through high-stakes strategy and innovation challenges, she now channels that same curiosity into crafting whodunits.

Her nonfiction debut, The Career Catapult, won the Independent Press Award, but with The Jasmine Murders, Roopa joyfully returns to the storytelling instincts that once made her Oxford thesis ‘too entertaining’. Her essays on strategy and creativity have appeared in Knowledge@Wharton and the Economic Times.

Roopa lives in New York City with her professor husband, their beagle Tara, and an ever-growing stash of notebooks filled with clues, red h ...more

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Under Cover of Chaos

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