Description

Saira Mansoor has the life every woman in her South Mumbai circle quietly envies: a charming investment-banker husband, a duplex in Bandra West with sea-facing windows, a five-year-old daughter at the right school, and a marriage that — eight years in — still has heat. So when she finds the photograph tucked behind her husband Zain’s credit cards, she tells herself there must be an explanation. The woman in the picture is laughing on a Goa beach. The woman in the picture is wearing Saira’s earrings. The woman in the picture has Saira’s face.

Three days later, that woman — a gallery curator named Alia Mirza — is found drowned in a Juhu hotel bathtub, and the Mumbai Police are very interested in talking to Mrs. Saira Mansoor about her movements that weekend. The trouble is, Saira cannot fully account for them. The trouble is, Zain has stopped coming home. The trouble is, Alia and Saira shared more than a face — they shared a hometown, a college hostel, and a secret from fifteen years ago that someone has finally decided to collect on.

Sleek, sultry, and dangerously addictive, *The Other Wife of Bandra West* is a thriller about the dark glamour of Mumbai’s elite — the marriages built on lies, the friendships that rot in private, and the women who finally stop pretending to be safe.

Once you start, you will not sleep until you know.