Razor Sharp

A serial killer is at work in Mumbai, and the victims he leaves behind have all been tortured. The city is frightened, and the authorities cannot work out what connects people who seem to have been chosen at random.

Prakash Kadam is called in to stop him. He was once a decorated police officer, but he is now bitter, angry and haunted by his past. The investigation he joins is slowed by sluggish police work and outdated forensic methods.

As old enmities resurface and the case throws up puzzling twists, the pressure on Kadam builds. He has to find the killer before more people die. He also has reason to fear losing someone close to him, as he has before.

This is a crime thriller built around a murder investigation, with a damaged ex-cop at its centre and a hunt that tightens as it goes. The mood is dark, given the tortured victims, and the central question is the link between them. It is the first book in a new series.