Bollywood Storm, Book I: New York

Can a mystical detective solve the mysteries of India? 


Bollywood Storm is a lyrical, mystical, murder mystery, set in Bollywood-style. Along the way, it’s also a meditation on Eastern and Western cultures, self, identity, ego, privilege, loss, sensuality, spirituality, and intimacy; and it’s got five song and dance numbers in it, too.


The maze of the story takes place in two Books, spanning two continents.

Elanna Forsythe George 

is a Boston born, New York forensic scientist who takes on only cold cases, stone cold dead cases. She solves mysteries in unusual ways with her accidentally acquired, para-mystical abilities. Her cases come to her a few years after high-powered mainstream investigations, police and legal proceedings have all failed, and there's a dead end. But she doesn't take every case. 


Book I: New York

Elanna is hired by the Bollywood starlet Simryn Gill to reopen the case of Rajesh Sharma, a Bollywood director who died of a supposed heart attack two years previous. Although it appears a simple heart attack, there is no drama, no gossip and no controversy anywhere in the Bollywood media. Somewhere, in that odd, conspicuous silence, Elanna smells a big rat.