'Bhalu, call this story fiction if you want, but you must tell it because it is true, and its heart is that murder of forty years ago which people in India still remember...'

The reverberations from the notorious Nanavati society murder in 1950s Bombay – the fatal consequences of an affair between an Indian playboy and his married English lover – were so great they reached the offices of Prime Minister Nehru and irrevocably changed the face of the Indian justice system.

...because its threats are still alive, running unbroken into the future.

In modern-day London, Bhalu unexpectedly meets Phoebe, forty years after their idyllic childhood in India, and just as Bhalu is beginning to explore a mystery left him by his dying mother.

...because the uproar and sensation of the Nanvati trial hid another monstrous crime, which remains undiscovered, its perpetrator unpunished, except by these words that you will write.

Together, Bhalu and Phoebe return to India to discover the second, unpunished crime that destroyed their mothers' lives, and write the last chapter of the Death of Mr Love, but in the teeming alleys of Bombay, they discover that their mysterious enemy still has the power to kill.

Spanning the secrets of fifty years and two continents, The Death of Mr Love fuses myth and murder, fact and fiction, in a sensuous and compelling evocation of the psychosexual undercurrents of Indian life. It is a tale of stories that 'begin before their beginnings, and continue beyond their ends'.

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