Author Ruby Gupta has recently come up with her eighth book No Illusions in Xanadu. This murder mystery has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
The story starts with the handsome, legendary Bollywood superstar Rajvir Kapoor being found dead in the thirtieth-floor study of his swanky new home, Xanadu.
Barely hours before his death, Xanadu, had been teeming with the pick of the country’s elite: hot-shot celebrities, business magnates and close friends and family of the actor – all of whom had come together for the grandest party Mumbai had ever seen. Investigations reveal that Rajvir Kapoor was murdered, and now everyone is a suspect. Professor Shantanu Bose, eminent nano-expert and part-time sleuth, a house-guest at the time, is willy-nilly forced to join the investigation.
He finds himself in an alien world of the glitterati and their idiosyncrasies, where murky secrets are revealed and facts muddled.
As Shantanu struggles to piece together the puzzle amidst the confusing moral codes adopted by the people of this starry realm, glamorous Mumbai seduces him and he finds himself irresistibly attracted to the enchanting prime suspect.
The author then reveals if and how the professor manages the tightrope walk between emotions and justice.The author, Ruby Gupta is an author who initially chose to study science, then switched to creative writing, dabbled in journalism, earned a PhD and thereafter joined the world of academics.
In addition to her latest book, she has published seven other books. Of her eight books, four are non-fiction while four are fiction. Her forte is mystery and all her novels are essentially mysteries. Her current focus is crime fiction and both her recent novels, A Degree in Death and No Illusions in Xanadu are murder mysteries featuring the intriguingly dapper detective, Professor Shantanu Bose.
She is currently working as professor and head of the humanities department at the Indian Military Academy and also working on her next crime thriller.