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It is the first night of Ramadan. At Shivaji Nagar in the heart of Bangalore, a young male prostitute is killed and burnt alive. It would have stayed as yet another unsolved murder, but for Inspector Borei Gowda, the investigating officer. As bodies begin to pile up one after the other, and it becomes clear that a serial killer is on the prowl, Gowda recognizes a pattern in the killings which no one else does. Even as he negotiates serious mid-life blues, problems with his wife and son, an affair with an ex-girlfriend, and official apathy and ridicule, the killer moves in for the next victim...Steeped in the lanes and atmosphere of the city of Bangalore, A Cut- Like Wound introduces to the reader a host of unforgettable characters and is a brutal psychological thriller unlike any in world fiction.

Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller set in Bangalore India, the city now a hub for child trafficking.

A Bangalore police procedural featuring Inspector Borei Gowda, a splendidly grumpy, hard-drinking, deeply flawed character whose chaotic home life includes an absent wife, an estranged son and an enigmatic mistress. It all begins when elderly Professor Mudgood is murdered in his kitchen at 2 am on a November night.

This book describes the physicochemical fundamentals and biomedical principles of drug solubility. Methods to study and predict solubility in silico and in vitro are described and the role of solubility in a medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical industry context are discussed. Approaches to modify and control solubility of a drug during the manufacturing process and of the pharmaceutical product are essential practical aspects of this book.