Harith Athreya Books in Order

A wealthy patriarch summons relatives to an isolated manor and creates two wills whose effect depends on how he dies. When a landslide cuts off the house and murder follows, investigator Harith Athreya must disentangle family resentment from carefully arranged financial motives.

An archaeologist’s death appears to fulfill a curse attached to an island excavation near Jhansi. Investigator Harith Athreya examines the team’s hidden conflicts, searching for human motives beneath legends that threaten to obscure the truth and perhaps conceal another killing.

Harith Athreya’s holiday in the Himalayan foothills is interrupted by bloody handprints and a guest’s fatal fall. Suspicion settles on five young visitors who deny knowing one another, leaving the detective to uncover their connections before another death occurs.

While holidaying in Kerala, Harith Athreya advises a Bollywood family on making a murder-mystery film. When a real death copies the screenplay, he must investigate rivalries, financial trouble, and possible criminal connections beneath their glamorous appearance.