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Quilett social events. Hello everyone, my guest is Nev March.

Nev is a former business analyst turned novelist.

Her debut novel Murder in Old Bombay was published in 2020, and it's the first in a series

of mysteries featuring the detective James, Jim Agney Hotry. There are two sequels already out, Peril of The Exposition,

2022 and the Spanish Diplomat Secret 2023. And I believe you're currently writing book four is book four art yet?

No not yet and it won't be out for a year but it is almost done this month it will be

turned into the publisher. Wow that's exciting and each of

the novels has a has a slightly different setting and they are all centered on historical mysteries that you have revisited.

Nave Teachers Creative Writing at Rutgers Oshar Institute and she is like me a Parsi Zoroastrian and that topic is going to come up later in our conversation.

But let's start with the, we're going to talk today about the first book,

Murder in Old Bombay, which is is features a historical unsolved

historical mystery that took place that affected the Parsi community.

And I think we'll begin by with Nave reading a little bit from the beginning of the book which

will set the scene for that and then let's talk about the historical events and what is known

about them and what drew you to that, first drew you to that story.

I'd be delighted too.

Thank you, thank you.

Okay, here goes.

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