Season of the Monsoon — Paul Mann

A corpse has been discovered in a lake in Film City, the Hollywood of India. The victim has been so badly mutilated that it is impossible to identify the body as male or female, let alone give it a name. It is clear to Inspector George Sansi that this murder was an act of willful savagery, committed by someone who enjoys torturing and killing. And who will undoubtedly kill again.

As Sansi painstakingly follows up every forensic clue and pressures every witness to confess what he knows, a shocking portrait of evil emerges. Sansi begins to suspect that the murderer is counting on the perpetual chaos of India to cover his tracks. From the drug- and sex-filled cinema world to the lair of Bombay's most powerful gang lord, through the unspeakable slums to the green and cloistered suburbs of the rich, Sansi propels himself into a political imbroglio from which he may not come out alive....