An Arranged Murder

Chetan Bhagat's An Arranged Murder is exactly what it promises: a masala murder thriller, and an unapologetic one. I came for the whodunit and got real twists — the kind that actually reorder what you thought you knew — but what I'll remember is the food. Bhagat writes Punjabi cooking with such loving, specific detail that I caught myself genuinely hungry, plotting a samosa-and-chai break between chapters. This is not an intellectual read and doesn't pretend to be; it's a fast, fun, satisfying one — the literary equivalent of comfort food. As an audiobook it's well cast: narrator Hrishikesh Kannan clearly loves food as much as the author does, and he's never more animated than when voicing mithai or kulchas — the perfect match for a book this hungry. Really liked it: pick it up when you want a page-turner that doesn't ask much of you but pays it back in twists and cravings.