Aarushi

THE MURDERS THAT GRIPPED THE NATION

Seven years ago a teenage girl, Aarushi Talwar, was found murdered in her bedroom in Noida, a middle-class suburb of Delhi. The body of the prime suspect-the

family servant, Hemraj-was discovered a day later. Who

had committed the double murders, and why? Within weeks, Aarushi's parents, the Talwars, were accused;

four years later, they went on trial and were convicted.

BUT DID THEY DO IT? Avirook Sen attended the trial, accessed important friends to Hemraj's old boss, from the investigators to the

documents and interviewed all the players-from Aarushi's

forensic scientists-to write a meticulous and chilling book that reads like a thriller but also tells a story that is horrifyingly true. Aarushi is the definitive account of a sensational crime, and the investigation and trial that followed