{"product_id":"book-g7pn","title":"Necropolis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Someone is cutting off victims' fingers in New Delhi and vampires and lycans are suspects in this ambitious mix of detection and the supernatural from Singh.\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sajan Dayal, a Delhi detective, pursues a serial (though nonlethal) collector of human fingers. Dayal's team encounters would-be vampires and werewolves, plus a woman named Razia who may or may not be centuries old.\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Spring 2016 Announcements)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An intriguing mix of history, myth and the realities of contemporary New Delhi...Astonishing and satisfying.\" (\u003ci\u003eReviewing the Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Superbly gothic...The novel is a compelling one and certain to be a great addition to courses on detective fiction and noir, especially given its focus on a city that has not necessarily or traditionally been attached to mystery and mayhem. Singh is giving places like Los Angeles and San Francisco a run for their money in this re-envisioning of the urban noir.\" (\u003ci\u003eAsian American Literature Fans\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e is a ravishing beauty of prose that is as sumptuous as it is gripping...Imagine a cocktail of V.S. Naipaul, Agatha Christie, Elmore Leonard, and E.M. Forster, and you have the essence of this haunting and ferociously charming novel.\" (Ken Bruen, author of \u003ci\u003eGreen Hell\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I tore though \u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e with great pleasure and a fair measure of unease. It's a grisly, wonderfully written novel that interweaves disparate genres and styles into a whole that satisfies thoroughly. As fine a crime novel as I've read in the last year.\" (Scott Phillips, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ice Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Avtar Singh's \u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e is an ode to ancient, medieval, and Old Delhi, a romantic ballad that cuts across time, if not place, and melds features of classic detective fiction with those of the hard-boiled and roman noir in a style that is exquisitely the author's.\" (Sumana Mukherjee, \u003ci\u003eMint\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e follows Sajan Dayal, a detective in pursuit of a serial (though nonlethal) collector of fingers. He encounters would-be vampires and werewolves, and a woman named Razia who may or may not be centuries old. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuided by Singh's gorgeous and masterful writing, the novel peels back layers of a city in thrall to its past, hostage to its present, and bitterly divided as to its future. Delhi went from being an imperial capital to provincial backwater in a few centuries: the journey back to exploding commercial metropolis has been compressed into a few \u003ci\u003edecades\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining elements of crime, fantasy, and noir, \u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e tackles the questions of origin, ownership, and class that such a revolution inevitably raises. The world of Delhi, the sweep of its history - its grandeur, grimness, and criminality - all of it comes alive in \u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audible","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":67888038543664,"sku":"ZEg7pn","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49357505265968,"sku":"10g7pn","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/g7pn-Square-cover.webp?v=1790752933","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-g7pn","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}