Book review: The Bandit Queens promises more dead bodies than it delivers

The Bandit Queens By Parini Shroff. PHOTOS: DEVIN SPRATT & PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
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The Bandit Queens
By Parini Shroff
Mystery/Allen & Unwin/Paperback/352 pages/$24.60 with GST/Books Kinokuniya
2 stars

Geeta is a widow rumoured to have killed her husband, who disappeared five years ago.

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