Book Review of "The Mahabharata Murders"

“The smile is the cruelest balm of all. It covers the wound from the outside and keeps it open from the inside.”

The Mahabharata Murders is a gripping, fast paced and a perfect edge-of-the-seat murder mystery novel. It’s fun, it's fast and it's entertaining. No subtext here, nothing deep or philosophical, it delivers on what it promises - an engaging story for one to enjoy. 

The mystery is sufficiently engaging, but it’s the characters, the flawed & the vulnerable protagonist and an equally peculiar antagonist make it a worthwhile read. To me at least, a couple of parallels to the Mahabharata characters seem a bit stretched and drawn out but the rest of them fit fairly well.

This book reads more like a movie screenplay, but a good screenplay, so you wouldn’t be disappointed. All in all, a perfect weekend read - 4/5.