Whisper in the Wind

All the stories in the world are whispered in the wind. Listen! And the wind will blow one into your head.'These words whispered by a madman haunt Jamshed Fali Irani. The young heir to a business empire in Bombay he is in Goa to try and pursue his dream of being a writer. Locked away in a crumbling decrepit mansion struggling to write as the monsoon rains down the wind brings to him the cries of a little girl wandering the ruins nearby. Alice is trying to find her sister Sara who went missing years ago.Jamshed makes a reluctant promise to help her and finds himself drawn into a story that is darker and more intriguing than any he could have imagined. With his new friend Tania to whom he is increasingly drawn Jamshed attempts to unravel the mystery behind Sara's disappearance.Jamshed's search leads him into a tangled tale of loyalty and deceit at the heart of which lies murder. He has to find his way through a bewildering maze of contradictions as he tries to thread together answers to a mystery that involves a girl with the voice of an angel a violin that plays the sorrows of the heart and the bond between two friends who swear that not even death will do them part.In this vividly written Gothic novel alive with the sights and smells of pre-Independence Goa Venita Coelho tells a captivating suspenseful sweeping tale like no other.