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Crimson Fall
A search for a missing 26-year-old sends Aniruddha Jha and Joyita Roy—Ronny & Jo—into the underbelly of IT businesses in Washington, D.C., and the private lives of vulnerable Indian tech workers.
With deception and lies at every turn, there’s more than one disturbing reason for the young man’s disappearance, and the stakes are raised with a deadly encounter on the Capital Beltway. Someone is out to terminate Ronny and Jo’s search.
CRIMSON FALL is the first book in the exciting new series: RONNY & JO MYSTERIES.
Tech multimillionaire couple Ronny & Jo thought they had their hands full with startup mentoring, kickboxing, and managing an NGO until they figured out a new life skill: solving mysteries. This vocation sees them driving around Washington, D.C.'s national capital region, chasing crooks and killers lurking within the Indian community.
A tech startup mentor, keyboardist for a D.C.-area band, and prolific home chef, fifty-year-old Ronny, who sold his Cloud startup company in 2016, is the reluctant strategist dragged by Jo into investigations.
The power bank driving the duo's sleuthing, fifty-year-old Jo advocates sustainable building design, kickboxes regularly, and runs forty miles every week.
As they square off against adversaries in Washington, D.C.’s Indian community, Ronny & Jo are aided by ethical hacker Ben; cabbie Naz; building concierge Santana; D.C. insider Peyton; and Loki, or Professor Lokanathan, guru of all things arcane. Detective Nicole Oduwole of the Arlington PD brings the authority of the police into play. Jo’s father Dr. Debjit Roy, a retired orthopedic surgeon, offers words of caution and encouragement in equal measure, while his younger brother, the retired Colonel Ranjit Roy of the Indian army, can be called upon for matters of security and surveillance.
This discussion guide was shared and sponsored in partnership with DartFrog Books.
Book club questions for Crimson Fall by Tara Dee
Use these discussion questions to guide your next book club meeting.
In what ways do Ronny and Jo complement each other in their approach to this first mystery they encounter? How might this factor be useful in their future vocations as amateur sleuths?
Much of the book focuses on Ronny’s and Jo’s skills and personalities and their relationship with each other. How do you think these make them successful as amateur sleuths?
Many of the characters in the book are of South Asian/Indian origin. How does the book present the South Asian/Indian community? Does the book expand or challenge how the reader looks at South Asians/Indians in the US?
Some of the characters within the novel are shaped by their experiences of being an immigrant. To what degree do you hold the characters accountable for their actions, and to what degree do you attribute their behavior to their circumstances?
The book and the rest of the series is mostly based in the national capital region of Washington, DC. How does the book evoke a sense of place? Did you get a sense of the region, and is it different from how it has generally been presented in other books on the region or in movies based on the region?
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