Swarup's (www.vikasswarup.net) second novel upholds the best-selling cachet of Slumdog Millionaire (originally published in 2005 as Q&A and adapted into a 2008 multiple Academy Award-winning film). Rich New Delhi reprobate Vivek Rai is shot dead at his murder trial acquittal party, and the police are looking at six suspects: a tribal native, a Bollywood queen, a cell-phone thief, a bureaucrat, a politician, and a boisterous Texan. More than a whodunit, the wry and spritely saga of how this hodgepodge converges at Rai's cheeky acquittal bash is like a kaleidoscope of soap operas. British actor Lyndam Gregory's Indian roots inform his authentic voicing of the predominantly Indian cast of characters. An essential acquisition. [The Minotaur: St. Martin's hc was described as showing Swarup to be "a skillful prose stylist and deft handler of plot," LJ 7/09; film rights have been optioned by Starfield Productions and BBC.-Ed.]--Judith Robinson, Dept. of Lib. & Information Studies, Univ. at Buffalo (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.