Her Fugitive Heart

March 4, 2019
In Tantimedh’s rollicking third and final Ravi PI mystery (after 2017’s Her Beautiful Monster), Ravi Chandra Singh and his colleagues at London’s Golden Sentinels Private Investigations and Security Agency navigate a number of sticky situations. One is a country house party with prominent businessmen, expensive call girls, covert surveillance, and illegal substances. Another is the prospect of babysitting a budding revolutionary undergoing plastic surgery and considering her next cause. When a terrorist entangled with the unstable daughter of a wealthy American media mogul falls afoul of the CIA as well as a pair of Golden Sentinels enforcers, Ravi is forced to intervene. After enduring visions of Hindu gods who offer continual and unwanted advice, and surviving a harrowing episode with stupid but lethal thugs, Ravi faces a greater danger: keeping his mother and prospective mother-in-law from killing each other over their conflicting plans for his marriage to his beloved Julia. An international incident that complicates the lives of the Golden Sentinels investigators ends in poetic justice. Readers will be sorry to see the last of Ravi and company.