![]() Markham wants to protect their site, although there have been no big discoveries. They’ve been stealing art and antiques for several years, and disappearing quickly. ![]() The crew at the site have stories to tell about other expeditions that have been robbed of antiques by a group called Bronze Runners. She accuses staff of misdeeds, and recently fired one of the crew. Raman finds an excavation site with a group of people who are suspicious and uneasy because the head of the expedition, Mrs. Before he heads to the site, his host tells him of the ancient legend from the Orchha kingdom, the story of a young couple in love, their disappearance, and a curse on Naaz Tapu, a curse involving an enormous guard and his dog. The lead trustee suspects something is wrong at the site of excavation. He is commissioned to visit an archeological dig across from the islet. Even when he sees it for the first time, Naaz Tapu elicits a eerie feeling in Harith Athreya. ![]() It just shows how creative Raman is, that he takes his sleuth from one mystery style to another, and they both work.īundelkhand in central India, and the small islet, Naaz Tapu, have a long history of legend and superstition. While A Will to Kill was definitely in the Agatha Christie style, A Dire Isle was a police procedural with the expected wrap-up scene. Well, RV Raman’s second Harith Athreya mystery came as a surprise. ![]()
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