Sunday 23 June 2024

Detectives of Autumn House by Manjima Misra

Detectives of Autumn House is a novella by Manjima Misra. The novella features LGBTQIA+ detectives who solve a case related to intellectual property rights, fake job offer letters, and mysterious disappearances. The book is situated at the unique intersection of detective fiction and queer fiction.  (Summary via Goodreads)


Detectives of Autumn House may be a novella but it is packed with some much excitement that it will feel like a full length book.

Detectives of Autumn House written by Manjima Misra follows the members of the Detectives of Autumn House as they follow a mysterious case of missing authors.  The Detectives, five females, case is about struggling authors who are approached by an elderly gentlemen offering them a lot of money in exchange for the property rights of their books and allowing him to publish their books under his name.  Then they seem to vanish and their books end up in a bookstore named Sherlock House where they are now under the name of Deliski as the author.

This case will lead the five detectives to this bookstore as well as to a literary agency and more to the case  ..... 

Misra knows how to capture the reades attention and keep hold of it throughout the entire story.  Readers will have no trouble reading this book in one sitting, if that is what they choose to do.  You can, however, read it slowly ... if you have that willpower.  I believe it will be hard to stop once you have begun reading it.


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