Lalli Unveils a Window
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Her Muslim neighbors, the Ahmeds, help her question her own preconceived notions about Islam. And when nineteen-year-old Sharif Ahmed willingly accompanies a member of the terror organization not realizing that he will be a pawn in ISIS-K’s intention to blackmail his father, Lalli realizes that violence is not integral to a religion but created by a sick craving for absolute
power.
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About the author
Kamakshi Pappu Murti is a retired professor of German Studies. She has authored fictional and
non-fictional writing. Fiction includes children’s books and murder mysteries. Her scholarly
writing is devoted to multi-cultural issues.
Fiction: The first of the Lalli series (Lalli’s Window) was published in 2017 by Austin Macauley,
and her first murder mystery, Murders Most Matronly introducing Leela Rao and Meena Rao,
two female detectives inspired by Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple), came out in 2017 as an e-
book by Juggernaut Books in India. Murders in the Ivory Tower was published in 2021 by
Pegasus in Great Britain. A collection of short stories entitled Bandilanka’s Forgotten Lives was
published by Leadstart in 2021. This collection was short-listed for an award in the Young
Adult’s category of the Neev Literary Festival held in 2022 in Bengaluru, India.
Non-fiction: Die Reinkarnation des Lesers als Autor (de Gruyter, 1990); India: The Seductive and
Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism (Praeger, 2000); To Veil or not to Veil: Europe’s Shape-
Shifting ‘Other’ (Peter Lang, 2012).
Murti is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Women’s
Fiction Writers’ Association (WFWA), and the Modern Language Association (MLA).
Murti is presently working on the next in the Leela/Meena murder mystery series, tentatively
entitled Murders Most Trans-Gressive, and motivated by the murders of transgender women in
India.
