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The Grudges of Gajanan Godbole

Salil Desai

After years of being married to an overbearing wife and wading through life pretending to be half-dead, Gajanan Godbole has finally found himself alone and, most importantly, free. Courtesy COVID.

Lucky to have survived the pandemic by the skin of his teeth, Gajanan now discovers a side of his personality he never knew existed. Like a snake shedding its skin, Gajanan casts aside his meek old self and embraces his new homicidal avatar.

To satiate his grudgeful urges, he compiles a list ‐ of people he feels deserve to be punished for having wronged him.

Apologize or die is his simple motto! For murder, he believes, is the perfect cure for nastiness...

Salil Desai

Salil Desai is the author of the much-acclaimed Inspector Saralkar Mystery Series that includes ‐ The Kid Killer (2023), Murder Milestone (2020), 3 and a Half Murders (2017), The Murder of Sonia Raikkonen (2015) and Killing Ashish Karve (2014). The books are currently being adapted into a web series by Jio Studios. Titled Kalsutra, the first season is based on Murder Milestone and is due for release soon. Salil is also the lead writer of the screenplay of Kalsutra.

His other popular books are Murder on a Side Street (2011), Lost Libido and Other Gulp Fiction (2012) and The Sane Psychopath (2018). Salil's short story 'Sound Motive' has also appeared in The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction (2024), while other short fiction has been published in anthologies by Penguin, Westland and Unisun.

His short story 'The Perfect Day' and novel The Sane Psychopath are also in the process of being adapted for screen as feature films. Salil was also one of the 4 international authors worldwide selected for the HALD International Writers' Residency in Denmark, hosted by the Danish Centre for Writers and Translators in June 2016. He was also invited and spent the month of May 2023 at Gullkistan, Centre for Creativity, Iceland.