Razia: a creature of the night and a political player, a well dressed clubber and a lover of poetry. She may even be hundreds of years old, almost as old as her home: Delhi, the city of tombs, at once majestic and in disarray.

She is muse and antagonist to DCP Sajan Dayal, whose centuries old roots lie in bureaucratic service. Assisting Dayal are Kapoor, a legend in the Delhi police, and an idealistic young cop named Smita Dhingra , who - unlike Kapoor - is from the elite Indian Police service.

A novel of unusual beauty, Necropolis, weaves poetry, brothels, ministers and migrants into a heady, twisted and darkly entertaining tale, peeling back the layers from a city that is simultaneously in thrall to its past, hostage to its present and bitterly divided to as to its future.