Salil Desai

Salil Desai is an Indian novelist who writes murder mysteries based in Pune, India.

[1][2] His debut novel, The Body in the Back Seat, which was published in May 2011,[2] was acclaimed as "the best murder mystery by an Indian author so far" by The Tribune.

[3] An alumnus of FTII, and a former journalist, he has also produced films, held creative writing workshops and written a number of short stories.

[4][1] 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.

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