Salil Desai is an Indian novelist who writes murder mysteries based in

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. His debut novel, ''The Body in the Back Seat'', which was published in May 2011, was acclaimed as "the best murder mystery by an Indian author so far" by

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. An alumnus of FTII, and a former journalist, he has also produced films, held creative writing workshops and written a number of short stories. His crime thriller ‘The Sane Psychopath’ was inspired by a real-life incident and the author created a narrative about how a soft-spoken and mild-mannered bus driver called Shankar Lande goes on an hour-long mindless rampage in Pune, killing ten people, injuring 70 and almost wrecking a hundred other vehicles.

List of works

* (2011). * (2012). * (2012). * (2015) * * * Anthologies in which stories have appeared - **''Stories at the Coffee Table'' (Caferati). **''The Shrinking Woman and Other Stories'' (Unisun). **''Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul'' (Westland). **''Vanilla Desires'' (Unisun). volume 1 **''Chicken Soup for the Indian College Soul'' (Westland). **''The Killer App and Other Stories'' (Penguin).

References

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