A mystery rooted in folklore, buried secrets, and a murderous island memory. 

Some roots run too deep to stay buried.

When Inspector Alisha Desai returns to her ancestral homeland of Île de Céleste, she expects a quiet posting and a fresh start. But a body beneath a sacred banyan tree—and a silver coin left like a calling card—marks the beginning of a chilling pattern.

As more deaths follow, Alisha and her team are pulled into a web of forgotten land deals, colonial ghosts, and a decades-old secret her grandfather once tried to expose—and paid dearly for.

Set against the lush, haunted backdrop of a fictional Indian Ocean island, Whispers of the Banyan Tree blends slow-burn mystery, magical realism, and island folklore into a gripping literary crime novel.

✨ Themes: generational trauma, land and legacy, cultural silence, ancestral justice, and buried truths
🪙 Perfect for readers who love Tana French, Shamini Flint, or The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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A dead woman. A buried family. A name the island was told to forget.
 

But some truths don’t stay silent—and some names remember you back.

When renowned folklorist Rhea Kaoro is found dead beneath the cliffs of storm-wracked Varuka, her estranged daughter Miri returns to the island she once fled. The official story calls it an accident. Miri isn’t convinced.

As monsoon rains close in and suspicion thickens, Miri teams up with Chief Naila Deshmukh, and what they uncover is more dangerous than either expected:

• A family erased from Varuka’s history

• A legacy soaked in silence

• And a name only spoken in whispers… until now.

Set on a haunting fictional island in the Indian Ocean, The Eighth Name is a slow-burning literary mystery about generational silence, identity, and the stories that survive—no matter how hard they’re buried.

✨ Themes: folklore, identity, family secrets, suppressed history, and women reclaiming narrative
🌧️ Perfect for readers who love Tana French, Attica Locke, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, and Where the Crawdads Sing

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A haunting mystery of Creole folklore, fire spirits, and blood debt.

When Dr. Amaya Zarin returns to the island of Zaka after her uncle’s sudden death, she expects grief—not a corpse on the beach, charred from the inside out.

What begins as a forensic consultation quickly spirals into something far older and more dangerous:

• A vanished girl whose name echoes in banyan groves

• A land burning with memory and myth

• And ancient glyphs seared into bodies like warnings
  
  

As Amaya digs into colonial land theft, ancestral power, and forgotten rituals, she must decide how far she’s willing to go to unearth what was buried—and who still guards it.

Set on a haunting Creole island infused with fire spirits, folklore, and ancestral memory, Whispers of the Flame is a slow-burning literary mystery about grief, identity, and the blazing cost of secrets.

✨ Themes: intergenerational trauma, folklore, fire as metaphor, sacred land, justice and belonging
🔥 Perfect for readers who loved The Island of Missing Trees, The Sentence, or The Daughters of Madurai

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