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Sita’s friend has been found dead and there is a pink nylon rope around her neck. Sita’s detective aunt, Lalli, needs to find out what happened to her niece’s friend before the same happens to anyone else. Summary of the Book Anais and Sita, two old friends, run into each other at the Mumbai airport. While they are busy catching up, Anais goes up to a woman and hands her a cardboard box that contains the ashes of her dead son. A few days later, Anais is dead and her body is found in the Mithi River. A peculiar nylon thread in pink is tied around her neck. It is up to Aunt Lalli, Sita’s detective aunt, to find out what happened. Does the cardboard box, the one that Anais gave to the woman in the airport, have anything to do with her death? About Kalpana Swaminathan Kalpana Swaminathan, an Indian writer, is also a surgeon. She won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2009 for her book Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit.