Kamakshi P Murti"Kamakshi Pappu Murti is a retired professor of German Studies. She has authored fictional andnon-fictional writing. Fiction includes children's books and murder mysteries. Her scholarlywriting is devoted to multi-cultural issues.Fiction: The first o the Lalli series (Lalli's Window) was published in 2017 by Austin Macauley, and her first murder mystery, Murders Most Matronly introducing Leela Rao and Meena Rao, two female detectives inspired by Agatha Christie's Jane Marple), came out in 2017 as an e-book by Juggernaut Books in India. Murders in the Ivory Tower was published in 2021 byPegasus in Great Britain. A collection of short stories entitled Bandilanka's Forgotten Lives waspublished by Leadstart in 2021. This collection was short-listed for an award in the YoungAdult's category of the Neev Literary Festival held in 2022 in Bengaluru, India.Non-fiction: Die Reinkarnation des Lesers als Autor (de Gruyter, 1990); India: The Seductive andSeduced 'Other' of German Orientalism (Praeger, 2000); To Veil or not to Veil: Europe's Shape-Shifting 'Other' (Peter Lang, 2012).Murti is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Women'sFiction Writers' Association (WFWA), and the Modern Language Association (MLA).Murti is presently working on the next in the Leela/Meena murder mystery series, tentativelyentitled Murders Most Trans-Gressive, and motivated by the murders of transgender women inIndia." Read More Read Less