August fiction: From speculative to literary fiction, six new books to look forward to this month

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The Menon Investigation, Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari

When Inspector General Vijay Menon reopens the old file of a police officer’s murder, he expects dead ends and faded trails. But as chance conspires with his investigative instincts, the case begins to crack open, leading him not only to the culprits but to truths far more unsettling. What begins as the pursuit of justice quickly transforms into a personal reckoning for Vijay as the crime he thought he was solving turns into his own trial, dismantling the fictions of who he thinks he is and what he stands for.

The Book of Death, Khalid Jawed, translated from the Urdu by A Naseeb Khan

The narrator goes to Gilgitia Til Mas to research whether two multinational firms could set up steel plants there. He finds out that years before this, an international archaeological institute had sent a six-member team to this region, where a small city named Girgita Til Mas existed about two hundred years ago. It was particularly renowned for a mental asylum. The city was purposefully submerged in water for the construction of a hydroelectric dam by the central government.

However, due to the ecological imbalance, all the rivers in the region either dried up or changed their...

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