Books like The City Of Devi by Manil Suri

Balram Halwai rises from servant to entrepreneur, revealing the brutal path of ambition and survival in modern India.

John Grisham’s debut legal thriller follows a murder trial in Mississippi that explores capital punishment, racial discrimination, and the complexities of the judicial system.

In "The Postman Always Rings Twice," a drifter falls for a married woman, creating a deadly love triangle that spirals into murder, betrayal, and the inevitable tragedy of a postman's cruel warning.

A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's critically acclaimed second novel, set in India in the mid-1970s and focusing on four unlikely individuals who come together in a city apartment during a state of emergency.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland traces two brothers—Subhash, who settles in America, and Udayan, who joins a political uprising in Calcutta—and their divergent paths until a tragic event forces a return to India and a quest to mend family bonds.

An Indian judge in a Himalayan estate grapples with retirement and family secrets when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives, sparking personal discovery amid the echoes of colonial history.

In a near‑future India, a mysterious plague makes people's shadows vanish, stripping them of memory and granting an ominous new power. As society unravels, a husband and wife race through a war‑torn world to protect each other and find a cure.

Four Washington conspiracy theorists join forces with a Secret Service agent after witnessing a murder to uncover a government conspiracy that could spark a global war.

A rice farmer turned poacher and a documentary filmmaker confront their beliefs when a ferocious escaped elephant threatens their lives and the fragile wildlife they both try to protect.

In the glittering world of diamonds, businesswoman Scarlett Drummond Murray must navigate greed, corruption, and rivalry to establish her jewelry empire while keeping her principles intact.

A baronet's presumed suicide 11 years ago spurs a bitter inheritance battle when a man claiming to be the exact same person emerges, igniting a tense struggle over family fortunes.

Former CIA operative Keith Landry returns to his Midwestern hometown of Spencerville to confront a love triangle that turns deadly, as past rivalry and jealousy ignite violence, vengeance, and renewed passion.

In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the same storm upend the fortunes of those aboard the Anahita, an opium carrier heading towards Canton? And what fate befell those aboard the Redruth, a sturdy two-masted brig heading East out of Cornwall? Was it the storm that altered their course or were the destinies of these passengers at the mercy of even more powerful forces? On the grand scale of an historical epic, River of Smoke follows its storm-tossed characters to the crowded harbors of China. There, despite efforts of the emperor to stop them, ships from Europe and India exchange their cargoes of opium for boxes of tea, silk, porcelain and silver. Among them are Bahram Modi, a wealthy Parsi opium merchant out of Bombay, his estranged half-Chinese son Ah Fatt, the orphaned Paulette and a motley collection of others whose pursuit of romance, riches and a legendary rare flower have thrown together. All struggle to cope with their losses - and for some, unimaginable freedoms - in the alleys and crowded waterways of 19th century Canton.

Semantha Heavenstone returns to her Kentucky family estate after graduation, where haunting memories of her deceased sister Cassie and a looming stepmother threaten her future career and newfound love with Ethan Hunter.