The Murderer of Cardim

It is 1876 and the city of Cardim is rife with a smell of murders and malice…67-year-old archaeologist Joseph Flanders would prefer not to die a failure. When a Hindu monk gives him an ancient wooden box, he thinks he has been given a final chance to salvage his career and achieve academic glory. He is mistaken. The next day, the monk is arrested on the suspicion of being a dreaded serial killer and Joseph finds himself embroiled in a bothersome investigation.Maya is an enigma. Her colleagues at the firm where she works as a junior clerk find her incompetent and annoying. They don’t know that she is secretly a part of a private detective agency. The detectives at the agency too, have little clue about her connections with the city police. While the police themselves are in the dark about her dealings with the criminal underbelly of Cardim. When her investigation in the serial murders brings her closer to Joseph and the mysterious box in his possession, Maya is convinced that the killings are not mindless acts of violence, as the police believe, but part of a much larger plot with the involvement of some of the most influential men of the city.Before long five guards at the prison facility where the serial killer is being held are found murdered and Cardim is plunged back into terror. It now falls on the unlikely pair of Joseph and Maya to piece the macabre puzzle together and decipher the mystery. But they need to be careful, or they could easily be the next target of the murderer.What the readers say"The Murderer of Cardim is anything but conventional and leaves you guessing till the last page. Absolutely Brilliant!" - AGR GoffPraise for other stories from the author"Very well written with an interesting twist in the end" - Jeffery Archer for Death of a Hangman"Superb book!" - Kalyan Ravakonda on The ClosetAbout the AuthorNoah Alexander is a TOI Write India winner and a Juggernaut Selects author based out of Delhi. During the day he works as a strategy consultant, helping firms realize their topline aspirations while his nights are spent buried in the same laptop trying to further his own literary ambitions.

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