Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death
In the second episode of Series 6 the girls get their teeth into Amita Murray's DELICIOUS "Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death" (available Oct 26!). The girls get into what rudeness is really, how childhood trauma infects present day relationships and how frozen custard might just be the answers to all of the world's problems.I mean if we want to get into it:
- The beauty of getting to know a character right from the get-go (cold open optional)
- Lots of mates vs few mates (small talk optional)
- Seriously, frozen custard is the answer
- We all can't handle how much we LOVE Veronica Chives
- How insanely rewarding this book was to read
- Seriously we can't handle how much we love Arya as a character
And I mean, of course there were tangents. What are we if not queens of the tangent as an art form my friends? What we got down to (tangent-wise) was:
- We're all sick and our keyboards are gross
- Transphobia and now Katie can't enjoy Dave Chappelle no more
- BTS's Suga taking us to the gun show and the healing powers of same
- The Gay Agenda vs Clee's gay agenda
- Katie's brothers are dicks and have ruined every movie twist ever
- and Chloe doesn't listen to the Japanese BTS albums and therefore is a socialist (no we don't understand either)
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Arya Winters is your typical cozy heroine. She lives in a cottage in a small English village, and bakes for a living - well, she specializes in macabre desserts. She has nosy neighbors, who she avoids ruthlessly due to her social anxiety. And she has a keen interest in all things sexy, especially Branwell Beam, the writer next door.
When her neighbor Tobias Yards turns up dead after eating poisoned tiramisu (definitely not poisoned when she baked it), no one seems to connect it to Arya's Auntie Meera's recent death. Instead, they blame her excruciatingly average ex-boyfriend—and Tobias’s nephew—and so she takes matters into her own hands. Now all she has to do to uncover the truth is to get over her aversion to Other People. Besides that, it's just a matter of getting beyond some yellow tape, dodging her former BFF Tallulah from secondary school, and getting into Branwell's pants—he seems strangely reluctant.
What Arya doesn't realize is that the murderer is dangerous, preying on lonely people who've experienced trauma, and that she might have to do all she can not to become the next victim.
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Amita is a writer, based in London. She writes in two genres: contemporary mystery and historical mystery romance. Her Arya Winters series of mysteries is published with Agora. The first came out in 2021. The second will follow in 2022. Her mystery novel Thirteenth Night won the Exeter Novel Prize in 2022.
Her first novel The Trouble with Rose came out with Harper Collins in 2019, with the German edition with Random House Blanvalet in 2021.
Having lived in and around Delhi, London and California, Amita likes to write funny things about cultural encounters and relationships. She thinks of herself as a bit of a nomad, though a previous tutor also aptly suggested the label “cultural abyss.” (Use in a sentence: Amita, you’re a cultural abyss.)
In 2016, her short story collection won the SI Leeds Literary Prize at a magical award ceremony at the Ilkley Literature Festival. The collection was partly written under a Leverhulme Writer-in-Residence grant at University College London in 2015, and stories appear in Wasafiri, SAND Berlin, the Berkeley Fiction Review and others.
She’s held writerly residencies with Leverhulme/University College London and Plymouth University/Literature Works. She has taught advanced fiction at the University of East Anglia and CityLit London. She’s been mentor at the British Council and writer in residence at Spread the Word.
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