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Nev March

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Nev March is the first Indian-born author to receive the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Award for Best First Crime Fiction. Nev is 2024 NY Chapter President for Mystery Writers of America.

Her debut novel, Murder in Old Bombay was a finalist for Edgar and Anthony Awards as well as Macavity, Barry and Hammett Awards for Crime Fiction.

She has appeared in radio and podcast interviews including NPR, and been featured in Mystery Tribune, Mystery Scene Magazine, CrimeReads, The History Reader and other publications. Murder in Old Bombay was an Amazon’s Editor’s Pick. The New York Times listed it as one of the “Best crime novels of 2020”.

After a long career in business analysis, she returned to her passion of writing fiction and now te
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Nev March I'm close to completing the first draft of my sequel... writing the last four chapters now. Was up till 3.30 am and can't wait to get back into it.
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I'm close to completing the first draft of my sequel... writing the last four chapters now. Was up till 3.30 am and can't wait to get back into it.
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Nev March Woo Hoo! I'm a week away from finishing the first draft of the sequel to Murder in Old Bombay!

The idea for my sequel came to me when I attended the P…more
Woo Hoo! I'm a week away from finishing the first draft of the sequel to Murder in Old Bombay!

The idea for my sequel came to me when I attended the Parliament of World Religions in 2018, a delegate of the miniscule Zoroastrian religion. I learned that the First POWR was held in 1893 during Chicago World's Fair.

The US population then was about 60 million. Over six months, 27 million people visited Chicago to see the World's Fair. That's almost HALF the country!
It was in this Chicago parliament that America first heard the visionary Hindu orator Swami Vivekananda speak. This, then was a pivotal moment in human history, the beginning of something marvelous: people of different cultures and faiths reaching out to understand each other. I knew this watershed moment had such potential ... but working out the deadly plot was tough. It took me 15 months :)(less)
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“In polite circles, a man who was happy until then to shake my hand would hear my name...and pause. His shoulders would stiffen , and he might spot an acquaintance across the room, and need to meet him. Women who seemed perfectly gracious--as they heard my Indian surname, their eyes widen with understanding.”
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“Whatever I had expected, it was not this. Astonishment gave way to bitterness. I was a mixed breed, a bastard, not worthy of his daughter. Had I not seen that mix of pity and disapproval all my life? Indians did not tolerate the mingling of races any more than the English.”
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“Most things, I find, are temporary and pass into distant memory with the next great event. But this commentary drew blood to my face.”
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“An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a second Partition: and a partition in the Indian soul would be as bad as a partition in the Indian soil. For my sons, the only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts. An India neither Hindu nor Muslim, but both. That is the only India that will allow them to continue to call themselves Indians.”
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“I'd seen death at Maiwand. Dying friends and dead Afghans. On the road to Khandahar....and Karachi. Each time is different, but to me the pain was the same. An ache twists inside when a friend's eyes plead, pleading that gives way to realization, that final contortion as the body fights to hold a soul already breaking free, tearing its way out.”
Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay

“Most things, I find, are temporary and pass into distant memory with the next great event. But this commentary drew blood to my face.”
Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay

“In polite circles, a man who was happy until then to shake my hand would hear my name...and pause. His shoulders would stiffen , and he might spot an acquaintance across the room, and need to meet him. Women who seemed perfectly gracious--as they heard my Indian surname, their eyes widen with understanding.”
Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay

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