Samarpita Dutta

“My parents used to have so many family friends, uncles and aunties whom I’d known my whole life. Who would’ve hosted me in a heartbeat. But that was before they’d had a falling-out. Well, really, that was before my parents had been pushed out, basically ostracized after everything that had happened with my sister.”
― Naina Kumar, Flirting with Disaster

“Sunday. Ah, Sunday. What would life be without Sundays? That melancholy day that seems to stretch out forever and yet still seems to be over too soon.”
― T E Kinsey, In the Market for Murder

“If anything happened to me she’d have to go and live with her dad, who, as I think we’ve already established, is a total waste of space, oxygen, and the Earth’s natural resources.”
― Fiona Leitch, Murder on the Menu

“All around her was vibrant life, but here she was, like Charon, piloting a lonely traveller towards death.”
― Robert Thorogood, Murder on the Marlow Belle