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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
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THE JASMINE MURDERS by Roopa Unnikrishnan
"A stranger at the door . A severed head . A braid still woven with Jasmine . It’s when Uma moves to Manamadurai with her husband who is a police chief . Her worst fears came true . Well written and an intresting plot . "
THE JASMINE MURDERS by Roopa Unnikrishnan
"In her debut fiction novel, Roopa Unnikrishnan takes us back to a time when women had a well-defined role and shows us how a strong and clever woman could still play it her own way. She paints a beautiful portrait of the young Uma adjusting to life w" Read more of this review »
THE JASMINE MURDERS by Roopa Unnikrishnan
"If you're a fan of engaging husband-and-wife sleuthing teams like Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, you'll enjoy this dazzling debut from Roopa Unnikrishnan. Newlyweds Uma and Jayan are just adjusting to police chief Jayan's new posting" Read more of this review »
THE JASMINE MURDERS by Roopa Unnikrishnan
"From the opening scenes I was pulled into Southern India of the 1960s, the heat, the heavy scents of flowering trees, the smoldering domestic conflicts and the “just so” procedures imprinted on the local government and police by the British Raj.
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I really enjoyed getting to know Lake Harlowe - a richly drawn character with a spicy past!
Lenore Nash’s "She Fell Away" is a haunting and beautifully written novel that lingers long after the last page. From the very first chapter, Nash’s lyrical p
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"Girl in a Scarlet Hijab" by Suresh Kumar is one of those rare books that lingers long after the final page. It’s not just a story—it’s a meditation on identity, resilience, and the unspoken beauty of courage in everyday life. Kumar’s prose moves wit ...more
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