Leela's Book Coronet Despised by both pupils and

Despised by both pupils and peers

brutally murder his mother and sister and take him captive

A collection of five Wexford cases

but he's also got brains

and naturally

Leela's Book Coronet Despised by both pupils andLeela alluring, taciturn, haunted is moving back to Delhi from New York. She knows her return will unsettle precariously balanced lives. Twenty two years ago her sister was seduced by Vyasa, a young university lecturer. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for the unlikely marriage of his son, Ash, to the child of a Hindu nationalist. Compounding Leela's disruptive presence, Ash's hedonistic twin sister Bharati arrives from London,