Author Meeti Shroff Shah's new mystery novel 'The Death of Kirti Kadakia' was longlisted for the CWA Dagger Award 2022, UK's popular crime writing awards. 'The Death of Kirti Kadakia' published by Bloomsbury India on June 18, 2022.
Set in the backdrop of Mumbai's posh Gujarati community at Temple Hill, the story follows novelist Radhika Zaveri who returns to Mumbai to mend her broken heart. But soon she finds herself in the midst of a tragedy-- her close friend Sanjana lost her father Kirti Kadakia to suicide. Meanwhile, Sanjana is expecting her first child and Kadakia is said to have been looking forward to holding his grandchild in his arms. So what led to Kirti Kadakia to kill himself? Or was it a murder? As Radhika starts helping Sanjana to get closure, she senses that there's something off about the whole situation and soon realises that Kadakia's family know much more about the death than what they are revealing. "'The Death of Kirti Kadakia' unearths the secrets and lies lurking beneath the diamond-studded satsangs and the lavishly catered 'pure-veg' brunches, and exposes the dual lives we live," reads the book's blurb.
