Sharmishtha Shenoy is the author “Murder in the Chowdhury Palace” published by Vishwakarma Publications. She is also the author of the Vikram Rana Mystery series. The books that are part of the series are: Vikram Rana Investigates, A Season for Dying, Behind the Scenes and Fatal Fallout. Murder in the Chowdhury Palace, A Season for Dying and Behind the Scenes has reached #1 in hot new releases.Her short stories have been published in reputed magazines. She loves writing murder mysteries, the kind of books that she herself likes to read. Before starting to write, she had been an IT professional and had worked in TCS, Satyam, Infosys, and Microsoft. She is a big foodie and enjoys Biriyani (both Hyderabadi and Awadhi versions) and rasgullas like most Bengalis. She is also a lusty singer of the bathroom singing variety. Though she is happily married to Mr. Shenoy in real life, in her fantasy world she is wedded to her creation, Vikram Rana. You can get to her blog by typing the word “Sharmishtha Rana” into Google. No, seriously, try it. She was born in Calcutta. She is an M Tech from the University of Reading, Great Britain and had received a 100% British Government Scholarship to study there. She lives in Hyderabad.You can reach her at sharmishtha.shenoy@gmail.com