{"id":8654,"date":"2021-03-15T16:27:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T10:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2021-03-15T16:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T10:58:04","slug":"club-you-to-death-anuja-chauhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/club-you-to-death-anuja-chauhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Club You to Death by Anuja Chauhan\u2014snazzy, murdery, club mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have been eagerly waiting to read Club You to Death<\/em> by Anuja Chauhan ever since I heard the news last year. There\u2019s something about Chauhan\u2019s books that give you enough chuckles and a swoon worthy couple to put you in a good mood; my favourite being Those Pricey Thakur girls<\/em><\/a>. Club You to Death<\/em><\/strong> deviates from romance (yet there are specks) and gives you a dead, handsome trainer, too many suspects, and the prestigious Delhi Turf Club (DTC). The 180-year-old club caters to the elite of Delhi \u2014 you either wait for 37 years and pay 7.5 lakhs to get a membership or you can snag one with ease if you are born in the right family.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Talking about the plot, Club You to Death<\/em> is a classic mystery, reminiscent of an Agatha Christie cozy mystery, but peppered with Delhi\u2019s elite. When a hot Zumba trainer and Youtube star Leo is found dead, the DTC has to save face and conduct the upcoming club elections. What looks like a gym accident is soon established to be a murder. What\u2019s more? \u2014 Leo seems to have presented a fake persona of a half Jamaican, half desi man to the club members and is rumoured to be in an affair with the election candidate, the successful entrepreneur Urvashi Khurana. Romance is sparse, mostly limited to men with six packs, and a barely surviving love triangle, both never overpowering the mystery at hand. After all there\u2019s a corpse with a tad too many scandals attached to it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ACP Bhavani Singh, is investigating this murder with the help of lawyer \u2018Kashi\u2019 Akash Dogra (who hates the selective club privileges) and his ex-girlfriend Bambi Todi, the bubbly butterfly of DTC. Bhavani Singh is a darling, really. He is na\u00efve, not too macho like your Bollywood hero, and diligently follows Canadian Air Forces\u2019s 5 Basic Xercises<\/em> routine (something that he doesn\u2019t shy from advising others). He also doesn\u2019t bend to pressure from higher ups and drops truth bombs like \u201cthe definition of anti-national is very very broad today\u201d. His subordinate Inspector Padam Kumar is a man in search for a wife, and does not think having the cops follow his prospective brides for background check should be frowned upon.<\/p>\n