City of Clues (The First Ten Deshmukh & Patel Mysteries—A Sherlock Holmes Reframing in Modern Mumbai)

A Maharashtrian detective. A Gujarati yogi. One city a thousand secrets. Welcome to Mumbai—where dreams shimmer shadows deepen and every alley whispers a new mystery. Meet Vikram Deshmukh: a sharp-eyed sleuth haunted by the puzzles only he can see. By his side is Rohan Patel a wellness expert whose calm mind and steady breath can find the truth beneath the city’s chaos. Together they are Mumbai’s most unconventional guardians—solving crimes the police can’t touch and the rich hope to hide. From vanished jewels in colonial vaults to heiresses fleeing high-society weddings; from wounded engineers in the slums to sinister drones at midnight; from Bollywood blackmail to cyber conspiracies hidden in the city’s digital heart—every case pulls Vikram and Rohan deeper into Mumbai’s tangled soul.