Murder on the Gold Line
I was murdered on the Gold Line. By the time the train reached Lake Station, I was dead. No one noticed as it appeared that I was sleeping. A little awkwardly. My head was sunk in my chest, my eyes rolled back in their sockets, only the whites visible, hidden behind my mirrored sunglasses.
But who would want to kill the Director of a polling institute? Someone who thinks the Director has found out too much and could jeopardize his access to the highest office in the county. In his debut novel, the author, Muzaffar Khaleeli, links the story of three spies, two national leaders and a pair of faith crossed lovers who are entangled by this murder.
A Disappearance in Madras
My family in Madras has long been haunted by the disappearance of a maid who was in our employ. Detective Ram Das is ending his career and is in charge of cold cases. One of the cases he is reviewing involves my parents and the maid. When she disappeared, my mother’s emerald necklace went missing.
“How could she have just disappeared? Her room was untouched,” Ram Das pointed out. “If you say she stole your necklace and ran away, why did she not take even one item from her room?” He looked at my parents, searching for an answer.
“You have to ask Radha that,” my mother replied. “She is not a missing person. She is a thief!”
Years later, I return to the city of my birth Madras, as my mother is dying. But Ram Das has not given up on solving the case and pursues my mother on her death bed and then me. In “A Disappearance in Madras” the author Muzaffar Khaleeli combines fact and fiction to create a compulsive read that leaves one questioning, “What part of this is real?”
My Partial Life
My Partial Life is a quixotic tale of Gopal’s misadventures as he searches for the one true love of his life. Around the globe, Gopal enters into amorous entanglements that result in him losing his partial and forcing a compulsory visit to the dentist. As the affairs of his heart implode, so does his job performance.
Gopal is about to be fired when he is recruited by the C.I.A. (Can’t Invent Anything) to poison Comandante Barbarossa, by slipping a pill into the Comandante’s drink. He fails in his mission and is pursued by the Revolutionaries and a band of drug smugglers. He escapes their clutches and finds his one true love, Esmeralda. But the C.I.A. is not done with Gopal and sends his handler to terminate him. It all comes to a climax on Gopal and Esmeralda’s wedding night with a camel, a wedding cake laced with Viagra, a Trojan Washington Monument, and two families with baggage.
All through the novel, Gopal’s observations question what we accept as norms of Western society. It’s a humorous piece of about 65,000 words.
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Meet the Author
Muzaffar Khaleeli was born in Chennai, India. He spent his career working in the hospitality industry. He is the author of three books, “Murder on the Gold Line”, ” My Partial Life”, and “A Disappearance in Madras.” Muzaffar lives in Southern California and enjoys riding his bike along the San Gabriel Bike Trail.
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