Glamorous, gripping, absolutely heaps of fun. I loved this.Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List and The Paris Apartment

A stunning, sophisticated, scalpel-sharp murder mystery. Powerful, fun, and hugely rewarding. Immensely impressive.Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End andAll the Colors of the Dark

The White LotusmeetsKnives Outmeets Crazy Rich Asians in this devilishly entertaining debut novel: both a sophisticated locked-room mystery in the tradition of Agatha Christie, and a provocative literary whodunit for the twenty-first century.

Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions, equally at home in Londons poshest clubs and on the squash court, but unmoored afterhe is dramatically forced to leave a high-profile job under mysterious circumstances. He decides its time to check in for some much-needed RR at Samsara, a world-class spa for the global cosmopolitan elite nestled in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. A person could be spiritually reborn in a place like this. Even a very rich person.

But a personor severalcould also die there.Samsara is the Sanskrit word for the karmic cycle of death and rebirth, after all. And as it turns out, the colorful cast of characters Ro meetsincluding a misanthropic politician; an American movie star preparing for his Bollywood crossover debut; a beautiful heiress to a family jewel fortune that barely survived Partition; and a bumbling white yogi inexplicably there to teach meditationharbors a murderer among them. Maybe more than one.

As the death toll rises, Ro, a lawyer by training and a sleuth by circumstance, becomes embroiled in a vicious world under a gilded surface, where nothing is quite what it seems . . . including Ro himself.Death in the Airis a brilliant, teasing mystery from a remarkable new talent.