You Beneath Your Skin
I had been interacting online with the Singapore based Damyanti for a year before we finally met in Delhi last December. The meeting was brief but created a lasting connect. Today I am so happy to reveal the cover for Damyanti Biswas‘s debut crime novel, You Beneath Your Skin . It will be published this September by Simon & Schuster, India.
Checkout this scintillating cover which intrigues you with its well designed graphics. The red and black immediately captures nuances of an atmospheric crime story, and the face visible under the title makes you wonder who she is, and what her story might be.
Book Blurb
Lies. Ambition. Family.
It’s a dark, smog-choked New Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious Police Commissioner Jatin Bhatt – an irresistible attraction that could destroy both their lives.
Jatin’s home life is falling apart: his handsome and charming son is not all he appears to be, and his wife has too much on her plate to pay attention to either husband or son. But Jatin refuses to listen to anyone, not even the sister to whom he is deeply attached.
Across the city there is a crime spree: slum women found stuffed in trash bags, faces and bodies disfigured by acid. And as events spiral out of control Anjali is horrifyingly at the centre of it all.
In a sordid world of poverty, misogyny, and political corruption, Jatin must make some hard choices. But what he unearths is only the tip of the iceberg. Together with Anjali he must confront old wounds and uncover long-held secrets before it is too late.
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I know I am salivating reading the book blurb. This novel sounds just the thing to reach out to on a rainy day when you are lounging on your balcony with a hot cup of your preferred brew. I know that’s what I am going to do – how about you?
Do you read crime novels? What do you think of the cover of You Beneath Your Skin? If you love reading pacy crime novels, then this book just might be for you.
For You Beneath Your Skin, all proceeds to the author would be divided between Chhanv Foundation and Project WHY.
To support the organisations, pre-order HERE.
Author Bio
Damyanti Biswas lives in Singapore, and works with Delhi’s underprivileged children as part of Project Why, a charity that promotes education and social enhancement in underprivileged communities. Her short stories have been published in magazines in the US, UK, and Asia, and she helps edit the Forge Literary Magazine.
You can find her on her blog and twitter.
Check out my interview with Author Shuchi Singh Kalra here
One day I hope to be doing a book cover reveal for you . Hope the day isn’t far away.
Oh wow- what a lovely thing to say Sunita. Wish I had that much confidence in my writing!!!
Oh, You Beneath Your Skin is perfect for a rainy day with a hot cup of tea. I read it in a a day! Hope you get to read it real soon, Shalini!
Yup its is – I just read it up and totally agree with you Shilpa! 🙂
I never read crime thrillers till recently. Then I got to edit two or three of them back to back and I was hooked. I like that they’re fast paced and are over in a jiffy because you can’t stop once you start. I loved You beneath Your Skin. It totally lives up to what it promises.
Oh I love crime thrillers and there was a time I was hooked to so many of those. I got to read YBYS and agree that its pretty fast and pacy and keeps one hooked till the end. I read it straight in one sitting in 3 hours and was up till 12 am while doing so 😉