The Sick Prince of Kalinjar: An Inder Shastri Mystery

A prince is dying. A priest claims prophecy. A detective must uncover which layer of conspiracy is real.

Ten-year-old Prince Rudra Pratap is being slowly poisoned at Kalinjar Fort. Detective Inder Shastri has twenty days to travel from Kashi, then weeks to solve an impossible mystery: the boy’s food is tested, his water is pure, yet the poisoning continues.

Inder uncovers smuggling, bribery, threatening letters. He arrests the guilty. The prince recovers.

Case closed.

Except it isn’t.

Because the conspiracy has layers. The obvious criminals were pawns. The real mastermind is still hidden-a fanatic convinced that ancient prophecy justifies murder, that divine will demands a child’s death.

When truth finally emerges under the cold eye of the full moon, Inder learns his hardest lesson: sometimes the most dangerous criminals are those who believe they’re righteous.

A brilliantly layered mystery where nothing is as it seems and each solution reveals another deeper mystery beneath.

For readers who love Agatha Christie, historical India, and plot twists that surprise.

BOOK FOUR IN THE INDER SHASTRI MYSTERY SERIES