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    "description": "The first in a detective series that \u201cimmediately joins the No. 1 Ladies\u2019 Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies\u201d (Booklist, starred review).\n\nMeet Vish Puri, India\u2019s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India\u2019s swindlers, cheats, and murderers.\n\nIn hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri\u2019s main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri\u2019s resources to investigate. With his team of undercover operatives\u2014Tubelight, Flush, and Facecream\u2014Puri combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago, and reveals modern India in all its seething complexity.",
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