Readomania is excited to announce the acquisition of the publishing rights to Manjiri Prabhu's next destination thriller, The Legend of the Snow Queen. Set in Germany, the story draws its inspiration from the legendary friendship between King Ludwig II and Sisi, the Empress of Austria. Re Parker, the protagonist of the series sets out to resolve a new mystery.
The book will be released soon.
In 2017, she began a new, high-concept, international thriller series called Destination Thrillers. These novels featured Re Parkar, an investigative journalist and filmmaker with psychic abilities, who gets.visions of doom that would befall a destination. With Re the readers travelled to Salzburg (The Trail of Four) and Sweden (Voice of the Runes) and were introduced to thrilling pieces of European history, neatly embedded in current mystery plots which unfolded over 48 hours... Now, we bring the third book in the series 'Legend of the Snow Queen' which takes this thrilling tryst with fascinating destinations forward.
Dr. Manjiri Prabhu holds a Doctorate in Communication Science and is a short-film-maker, an award-winning international author and also the Founder/ Director of two Festivals. She has directed over 200 children’s TV programmes, more than 50 short fiction and travel films and has authored 18 books. she is also a Master's in French.
Her unpublished psychological thriller novel was adapted into a Hindi feature film by NFDC, titled 'Kuchh Dil Ne Kaha'. Her thesis, converted into a book, titled 'Roles: Reel and Real', has become a rare reference book for students of Hindi cinema.
Prabhu has been acknowledged as a pioneer in India among women writers of mystery fiction, and she has a diverse global fan following. She is also the first female mystery Author to be published outside India and has been labelled as the ‘Indian Agatha Christie’. And much recently, Prabhu has been acknowledged to be a 'match for Dan Brown' by Dr. Shashi Tharoor.
She has been invited to reputed International Literature Festivals like Bouchercon, Cheltenham Litfest, the International Agatha Christie Festival, UK and International Women Fiction Writers, Matera, Italy.
Her novels 'The Cosmic Clues' was selected as a Killer Book, by Independent Mystery Booksellers of America and 'The Astral Alibi' was honoured as a 'Notable Book' in the Kiriyama Prize.
As the Founder/ Director of Pune International Literary Festival, Prabhu has brought Pune city on the International map of Literature and Arts festivals. She believes that literature heals and is a prerequisite to a peaceful society. Recently she also founded the International Festival of Spiritual India (For Humanity and Wisdom). This unique, free festival aims at helping people find a direction in life by supplying the attendees with tools, guidance and a purpose.
She has been awarded an award for 'Excellence in Service for Humanity' from the Rotary Club of Pune, Kalyani Nagar, (2022) 'Inspirational Women of Maharashtra -Excellence in the field of Writing’ (2017) and ‘Most Admired Leader of Maharashtra' by ERTC Global Herald (2017). Also awarded the Rex Karmaveer Gold Medal Award (2016) instituted by iCONGO and the UN.
She is also an animal welfare activist promoting caring and adoption of stray dogs for more than 35 years.
Read more about her and her books.
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