Product Description
Dead body, check. Disillusioned reporter, check. Dark and sinister secrets, check. When Mumbai Daily journalist Avantika Pandit is asked to interview her childhood nemesis Aisha Juneja, she knows it will be like an express bikini wax¬¬ painful, but quick. Then Laxmi, her former best friend, shows up dead. And suddenly Avantika finds herself turning into the reporter she used to be a nosy little newshound with the selfpreservation instincts of a dodo. Now, she has to meet old acquaintances she d hoped never to run into again, try to unravel the puzzle of Laxmi s death, and ask the questions nobody seems to be asking who is the man Laxmi was in love with? Why hasn t anybody heard of him? What does he have to do with her death? The answers could get her killed. But if the choice is between death and writing listicles, dying might not be that bad after all. Featuring schoolyard rivalries, the Backstreet Boys and a fat dollop of 90s nostalgia, Swear You Won't Tell? is part thriller, part whodunit, all fun.
About the Author
Vedashree KhambeteSharma is an awardwinning adwoman in her midthirties, which is okay because midthirties is the new midforties. Or something. For the past twelve years, she has peddled everything from moisturisers to magazines, like some kind of onewoman corner shop. Before that, she was a freelance reporter for several newspapers and wrote on a wide range of subjects from student suicides to types of boyfriends. Yes, that s right. Throw in a middleclass Maharashtrian upbringing, a convent education and an English literature degree, and you get, well, confused mostly. But also, inspired to tell the stories nobody else is telling. She lives in Mumbai with her husband, daughter and the niggling feeling that she has forgotten something. This is her second book.