Haunting Bombay is officially a BESTSELLER! San Francisco Chronicle listed it as #4 in this week’s bestseller list.

This thoughtful and in-depth review from Mysterious Reviews was just published, describing Haunting Bombay as ”a beautifully crafted mystery of amazing depth, sensitivity, and complexity… as haunting in its style as in its substance.” Reviewer Wayne Cunningham also writes, “Besides developing an outstanding story filled with family tensions and dark drama, Agarwal holds her reader’s interest with passages of history and biting social commentary and references to Indian mythology, deities, and regional superstitions. She can evoke laughter as well as tears, fear as well as serenity, and she is masterful at springing surprises at just the right moment.” Click here for the full review.

USA Today Books Roundup featured HAUNTING BOMBAY, describing itas an “intriguing debut novel” that “draws on the broader mystical culture that envelops India, where there is always a supernatural explanation for everything that happens, especially the horrific. Often, fingers point to the weakest members of the community; Agarwal seeks to give voice to the dispossessed through the supernatural.” Read the review.

Library Journal just gave HAUNTING BOMBAY a starred review, calling it a “good ghost story” that will “definitely appeal to fans of Monica Ali and Jhumpa Lahiri.”

This past weekend, I flew to Washington D.C. to accept a First Words Literary Prize for South Asian Writers, awarded to my yet unpublished novel, HAUNTING BOMBAY.